Toni Morrison Quotes About Country

• En este país, americano significa blanco. Todos los demás tienen que usar guión.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Country, Mean

  The Guardian, 29 de enero de 1992.

• How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Falling In Love, Cities

  "Jazz". Book by Toni Morrison, 1992.

• 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

  Country, Women, Differences

  Sula (1973)

• Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

  Toni Morrison

  País, Guerra, Clase

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.255, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.

  Toni Morrison

  País, Odio, Arma

  Fuente: theharvardadvocate.com

• She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

  Toni Morrison

  Amor, País, Niños

  Conferencia del Premio Nobel de Literatura, pronunciada el 7 de diciembre de 1993

• 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

  País, Creer, Blanco

• Durante mucho tiempo estuve convencido de que el conflicto entre judíos y negros en este país era un hecho mediático.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Media, Long

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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

  Country, Juice, Littles

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Una de las cosas monstruosas que causó la esclavitud en este país fue la ruptura de las familias. Quiero decir, trabajo físico, horrible; palizas, horrible; muerte por linchamiento, todo eso, horrible. Pero la vida de un padre que, A, no tiene control sobre lo que les pasa a sus hijos, ninguno. No te pertenecen. Puede que ni siquiera los amamantes. Pueden ser enviados a alguna parte, como en "Beloved" la madre, para ser amamantados por alguien que no podía trabajar en el campo y era una nodriza.

  Toni Morrison

  País, Madre, Ruptura

  "Toni Morrison Sobre la esclavitud humana y una era post-racial". "Tell Me More" con Michel Martin, www.npr.org. 26 de diciembre de 2008.

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