Toni Morrison Quotes About Feelings

• The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

  Toni Morrison

  Hate, Race, Play

  Fuente: www.goodreads.com

• La ira... es una emoción paralizante... no puedes hacer nada. La gente piensa que es un sentimiento interesante, apasionado y excitante - yo no creo que sea nada de eso - es impotencia ... es ausencia de control - y yo necesito todas mis habilidades, todo el control, todos mis poderes ... y la ira no me proporciona nada de eso - no me sirve para nada". [Entrevista con el locutor de radio de la CBS Don Swaim, 15 de septiembre de 1987].

  Toni Morrison

  Ira, Pensamiento, Habilidades

  FaceBook post byToni Morrison from 29 de Jul de 2011

• Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

  Toni Morrison

  Sweet, Writing, Thinking

• la desesperanza que proviene de saber demasiado poco y sentir demasiado (tan quebradizo, tan seco que corre el peligro de lo contrario: no sentir nada y saberlo todo)

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing Everything, Feelings, Dry

• Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Envy, Hatred

• There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving, Feelings, Working Together

  Fuente: theharvardadvocate.com

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