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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

“I don’t think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get.”

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Toni Morrison buch God Help the Child

Quelle: God Help the Child

“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises….
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays”

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“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”

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“I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”

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Toni Morrison buch Jazz

Jazz

“A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 2

“Was there anything so loathsome as a wilfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.”

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Toni Morrison buch Tar Baby

Tar Baby (1981)

“I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.”

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Interview in Newsweek (30 March 1981)

“The picture is still there and what's more, if you go there — you who never was there — if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there for you, waiting for you. So, Denver, you can't never go there. Never. Because even though it's all over — over and done with — it's going to always be there waiting for you.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 3

“Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty.”

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Toni Morrison buch The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye (1969) First lines

“In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

First lines
Sula (1973)

“Pretty woman, he thought. Pretty little black-skinned woman. Who wanted to kill for love, die for love. The pride, the conceit of these doormat women amazed him. They were always women who had been spoiled children. Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. They could not believe or accept the fact that they were unloved; they believed that the world itself was off balance when it appeared as though they were not loved. Why did they think they were so lovable? Why did they think their brand of love was better than, or even as good as, anybody else's? But they did. And they loved their love so much they would kill anybody who got in its way.”

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Song of Solomon (1977)

“It’s important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”

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A Humanist View (1975)

“I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.”

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Interview in Salon magazine ( 2 February 1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20000301183409/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_02int.html

“I would have known right away who you was when the sun blotted out your face the way it did when I took you to the grape arbor. I would have known at once when my water broke. And when I did see your face it had more than a hint of what you would look like after all these years. I would have known who you were right away because the cup after cup of water you drank proved and connected to the fact that you dribbled clear spit on my face the day I got to 124. I would have known right off, but Paul D distracted me. Otherwise I would have seen my fingernail prints right there on your forehead for all the world to see. From when I held your head up, out in the shed. And later on, when you asked me about the earrings I used to dangle for you to play with, I would have recognized you right off, except for Paul D.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 20

“If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 1

“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are seventeen miles from a town which has ninety miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the Convent, but there is time and the day has just begun.”

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Toni Morrison buch Paradise

Paradise (1998) First lines

“Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 3

“I see the dark face that is going to smile at me it is my dark face that is going to smile at me the iron circle is around our neck she does not have sharp earrings in her ears or a round basket she goes in the water with my face.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 22

“Why was there nothing it refused? No misery, no regret, no hateful picture too rotten to accept? Like a greedy child it snatched up everything. Just once, could it say, No thank you? I just ate and can't hold another bite?... But my greedy brain says, Oh thanks, I'd love more... my brain would go right ahead and take it and never say, No thank you. I don't want to know or have to remember that. I have other things to do: worry, for example, about tomorrow, about Denver, about Beloved, about age and sickness not to speak of love. But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Beloved (1987)

“I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms. No more running — from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this earth. I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D Garner: it cost too much! Do you hear me? It cost too much.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Beloved (1987)

“The mirror by the door was not a mirror by the door, it was an altar where he stood for only a moment to put on his cap before going out. The red rocking chair was a rocking of his own hips as he sat in the kitchen. Still, there was nothing of his — his own — that she could find. It was as if she were afraid she had hallucinated him and needed proof to the contrary. His absence was everywhere, stinging everything, giving the furnishings primary colors, sharp outlines to the corners of rooms and gold light to the dust collecting on table tops. When he was there he pulled everything toward himself. Not only her eyes and all her senses but also inanimate things seemed to exist because of him, backdrops to his presence. Now that he had gone, these things, so long subdued by his presence, were glamorized in his wake.”

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Toni Morrison buch Sula

Sula (1973)

“Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.”

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Toni Morrison buch Paradise

Paradise (1997)

“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”

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Toni Morrison

As quoted in Woman to Woman (1994) by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman

“I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman.”

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«Toni Morrison: 'I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman'» by Oliver Laughland, The Guardian (20 April 2015) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/20/toni-morrison-race-relations-america-criminal-justice-system

“Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

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Black Women Writers at Work (1983) by Claudia Tate

“This is worse than when Paul D came to 124 and she cried helplessly into the stove. This is worse. Then it was for herself. Now she is crying because she has no self… She doesn't move to open the door because there is no world out there. She decides to stay in the cold house and let the dark swallow her like the minnows of light above. She won't put up with another leaving, another trick. Waking up to find one brother then another not at the bottom of the bed, his foot jabbing her spine. Sitting at the table eating turnips and saving the liquor for her grandmother to drink; her mother's hand on the keeping-room door and her voice saying, 'Baby Suggs is gone, Denver.' And when she got around to worrying about what would be the case if Sethe died or Paul D took her away, a dream-come-true comes true just to leave her on a pile of newspaper in the dark.”

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Toni Morrison buch Beloved

Quelle: Beloved (1987), Ch. 12

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