I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?" Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.
Toni MorrisonTag: foreword
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni MorrisonYou looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
No, and if it’s not your brain thinking cold, cold thoughts, which you can dress in any kind of mood, then it’s nothing. It has to be a cold, cold thought. I mean cold, or cool at least. Your brain. That’s all there is.
Toni MorrisonWithout wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his knees—he leaped. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the wind, you could ride it.
Toni MorrisonMisery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
Toni MorrisonTag: sadness caution misery bad-luck
if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
Toni MorrisonTag: love
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The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status — that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me.
Toni MorrisonAt some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens-- that letting go-- you let go because you can.
Toni MorrisonI told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.
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