It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. Toni Morrison More Quotes by Toni Morrison More Quotes From Toni Morrison Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. Toni Morrison inspirational love thinking Laughter is more serious than tears. Toni Morrison laughter serious tears The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean. Toni Morrison elude-you inspirational mean I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Toni Morrison smile annoyed people I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. Toni Morrison women differences country I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. Toni Morrison exclusion racist people The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Toni Morrison survived evil firsts Something that is loved is never lost. Toni Morrison lost I type in one place, but I write all over the house. Toni Morrison type house writing She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. Toni Morrison color loneliness lying Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them. Toni Morrison heart kids rooms Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear. Toni Morrison effort mind years I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. Toni Morrison light writing order But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. Toni Morrison dreamer should dream The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order. Toni Morrison real-friends beautiful friendship You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art. Toni Morrison looks art needs But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day. Toni Morrison next-day brain past Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star. Toni Morrison cutting stars taken I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination? Toni Morrison silence imagination order Anything dead coming back to life hurts. Toni Morrison beloved coming-back hurt
