Toni Morrison
American Novelist
| Date of Birth | : | 18 Feb, 1931 |
| Date of Death | : | 05 Aug, 2019 |
| Place of Birth | : | Lorain, Ohio, United States |
| Profession | : | Novelist, Poet |
| Nationality | : | American |
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
All important things are hard.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
