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Toni Morrison

Geburtstag: 18. Februar 1931
Todesdatum: 5. August 2019

Toni Morrison ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Sie zählt zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der afroamerikanischen Literatur und erhielt 1993 den Literaturnobelpreis.

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Playing in the Dark

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„Ein Traum ist nur ein Alptraum mit Lippenstift.“

— Toni Morrison

„Vielleicht ist es das, worauf alle menschlichen Beziehungen hinauslaufen: Würdest du mein Leben retten? oder würdest du es nehmen?“

— Toni Morrison

„Wenn ein Neger Beine hat, sollte er sie benutzen. Setzen Sie sich zu lange, jemand wird einen Weg finden, sie zu fesseln.“

— Toni Morrison

„Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und mächtig, nicht geschichtslos sondern geschichtlich, nicht verdammt, sondern unschuldig, nicht ein blinder Zufall der Evolution, sondern fortschrittliche Erfüllung eines Schicksal.“

— Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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„Wenn Glück Vorfreude gepaart mit Gewissheit ist, dann waren wir glücklich.“

— Toni Morrison

„If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch The Bluest Eye

Quelle: The Bluest Eye

„Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.“

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— Toni Morrison

Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)

„But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch The Bluest Eye

Quelle: The Bluest Eye

„My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 1

„I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Song of Solomon

Quelle: Song of Solomon

„Something that is loved is never lost.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

„But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Jazz

Quelle: Jazz

„Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Song of Solomon

Quelle: Song of Solomon

„And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.“

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— Toni Morrison

„I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.“

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— Toni Morrison

„Anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. The best things she was, was her children. Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing, her beautiful, magical best thing — the part of her that was clean.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 26

„If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.“

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— Toni Morrison

„Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Jazz

Quelle: Jazz

„Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 9
Kontext: Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

„Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.“

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— Toni Morrison, buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved