Тони Моррисон цитаты
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Тони Моррисон
Дата рождения: 18. Февраль 1931
Дата смерти: 5. Август 2019
То́ни Мо́ррисон — американская писательница. Лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1993 года как писательница, «которая в своих полных мечты и поэзии романах оживила важный аспект американской реальности». Обладательница Президентской медали Свободы. Wikipedia
Цитаты Тони Моррисон
„Anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. The best things she was, was her children. Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing, her beautiful, magical best thing — the part of her that was clean.“
— Toni Morrison, книга Beloved
Источник: Beloved (1987), Ch. 26
„Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?“
— Toni Morrison, книга Song of Solomon
Источник: Song of Solomon
„Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.“
— Toni Morrison, книга Beloved
Источник: Beloved (1987), Ch. 9
Контексте: Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
„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. 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 Morrison, книга Tar Baby
Tar Baby (1981)
