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

✵ 18. Februar 1931 – 5. August 2019
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Toni Morrison Berühmte Zitate

„Ein Traum ist nur ein Alptraum mit Lippenstift.“

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

„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

Toni Morrison: Zitate auf Englisch

“No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

Quelle: Sula

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love… You can't own a human being.”

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Toni Morrison buch Song of Solomon

Quelle: Song of Solomon

“It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

“You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

“Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”

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“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”

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Toni Morrison buch Paradise

Quelle: Paradise

“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”

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Toni Morrison buch The Bluest Eye

Quelle: The Bluest Eye

“You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

Quelle: Sula

“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”

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Toni Morrison buch God Help the Child

Quelle: God Help the Child

“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”

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Toni Morrison buch The Bluest Eye

Quelle: The Bluest Eye

“In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

“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.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

Sula (1973)

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

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Toni Morrison buch Paradise

Quelle: Paradise

“Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.”

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Toni Morrison buch Jazz

Quelle: Jazz

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”

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Toni Morrison buch The Bluest Eye

Quelle: The Bluest Eye

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

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Toni Morrison Love

Quelle: Love

“You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”

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Toni Morrison buch God Help the Child

Quelle: God Help the Child

“you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

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“What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”

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Toni Morrison buch God Help the Child

Quelle: God Help the Child

“For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.”

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Interview with Don Swaim (1987)

“I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.”

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“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

Quelle: Sula

“The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

Quelle: Sula

“When I write, I don't translate for white readers…. Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.”

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“Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.”

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Toni Morrison buch Song of Solomon

Quelle: Song of Solomon

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