Toni Morrison Quotes About Literature

• Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, African American, Tolerance

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Beautiful, Real Friends

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

• Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

  Toni Morrison

  Mom, Daughter, Literature

  "Beloved". Book by Toni Morrison, September 1987.

• In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Play, Differences

• Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Son, Race

• And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

  Toni Morrison

  Song, Children, Flirting

• Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

  Toni Morrison

  Literatura

  Fuente: theharvardadvocate.com

• Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Book, Character

  Fuente: theharvardadvocate.com

• Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

  Toni Morrison

  Political, Important, Literature

  Fuente: theharvardadvocate.com

• Claro que soy una escritora negra... No soy sólo un escritor negro, pero categorías como escritor negro, mujer escritora y escritor latinoamericano ya no son marginales. Tenemos que reconocer que lo que llamamos "literatura" es ahora más plural, como debería ser la sociedad. El crisol de razas nunca funcionó. Deberíamos ser capaces de aceptar en igualdad de condiciones a todo el mundo, desde los hasidim hasta Walter Lippmann, desde los rastafaris hasta Ralph Bunche.

  Toni Morrison

  Latin, Writing, Black

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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