Тони Моррисон цитаты

„Мужчина - не что иное, как мужчина. Но сын? Ну, теперь это кто-то.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Больше нечего сказать, кроме как почему. Но поскольку с этим трудно разобраться, нужно искать убежище в том, как.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Я не запутался в формировании своей работы в соответствии с мнением других людей о том, как я должен был это сделать.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Несмотря на белую кожу, это наш первый черный президент.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Ничего подобного грехи других людей для отвлечения внимания.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Все зависит от того, сколько ты знаешь, - сказала она, - и хорошо знать, когда остановиться.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Независимо от того, чего ожидали все ваши зубы и мокрые пальцы, не было никакой причины, по которой эта простая радость может потрясти вас.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„Функция свободы - освободить кого-то еще.“

—  Тони Моррисон

„And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.“

—  Toni Morrison

„I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.“

—  Toni Morrison

„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

„But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.“

—  Toni Morrison, книга Jazz

Источник: Jazz

„If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.“

—  Toni Morrison

„Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.“

—  Toni Morrison, книга Jazz

Источник: Jazz

„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.

„Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.“

—  Toni Morrison, книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

„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)

„She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.“

—  Toni Morrison, книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved