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Toni Morrison

1931 - 2019

Toni Morrison was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for her literary works that explored African American culture and history. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her epic portrayal of the African American experience and was a pivotal figure in American literature.

  1. A home library is an act of hope.

    Toni MorrisonThe Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations. American Literary History, vol. 10, no. 3, 1998, p. 581
    #library#hope#knowledge

  2. We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.

    Toni MorrisonPEOPLE, 1977
    #life#purpose#respect

  3. Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

    Toni MorrisonRootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation. In Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation, edited by Mari Evans, p. 344. 1984
    #inheritance#privilege#inequality

  4. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

    Toni MorrisonBeloved, p. 261, 1987
    #water#memory#longing

  5. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

    Toni MorrisonBeloved, 1987
    #friendship#understanding#support

  6. Failure is just information.

    Toni Morrisonarts.gov/stories/magazine/2014/4/art-failure-importance-risk-and-experimentation/toni-morrison
    #failure#knowledge#perspective