Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. Toni Morrison More Quotes by Toni Morrison More Quotes From Toni Morrison The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time. Toni Morrison provocative sweat language If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. Toni Morrison writing discovery thinking Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time. Toni Morrison rivals loses trouble A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. Toni Morrison white believe country All art is knowing when to stop. Toni Morrison art-is knowing art I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals. Toni Morrison tree animal character Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. Toni Morrison cities running school Can't nothing heal without pain, you know. Toni Morrison without-pain pain heal Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one. Toni Morrison parent made long For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. Toni Morrison media long country If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Toni Morrison ties use long Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it. Toni Morrison being-mean being-me mean It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world. Toni Morrison mother father children ...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. Toni Morrison sky night thinking In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. Toni Morrison becoming color europe Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it. Toni Morrison block reading fun A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment Toni Morrison girl eye heart Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are. Toni Morrison juice littles country Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever. Toni Morrison scared knows writing Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine. Toni Morrison girl lonely mind
