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Toni Morrison [1]​ fue una escritora estadounidense, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 1988 y del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1993.

En sus obras, Morrison habla de la vida de la población negra, en especial de las mujeres. Era una combatiente a favor de los derechos civiles y comprometida con la lucha en contra de la discriminación racial. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. febrero 1931 – 5. agosto 2019
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Toni Morrison: 198 citas5 Me gusta

Frases célebres de Toni Morrison

“Cuanto más se esforzaba la gente de color por convencerlos de lo buenos que eran, de lo inteligentes y cariñosos, de lo humanos que eran, cuanto más se esforzaban los negros en persuadir a los blancos de algo que a sus ojos estaba fuera de toda duda, más profunda e intrincada crecía la selva en su interior.”

Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Beloved

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“Pero para descubrir la verdad sobre cómo mueren los sueños, uno nunca debe tomar la palabra del soñador.”

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“Nadie sabía apreciar la seguridad que proporcionaba la compañía de un fantasma.”

Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Beloved

“Después hizo algo mágico: levantó las piernas y los pies de Sethe y los masajeó hasta que lloró lágrimas saladas.
-Ahora te dolerá -dijo Amy-. Siempre que lo muerto vuelve a la vida, duele.”

Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Beloved

“Lo que tengo que hacer es meterme en la cama y no moverme. Quiero concentrarme en algo que sea inofensivo en este mundo.”

Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Beloved

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“Algún día irás andando por el camino y oirás o verás algo. Con toda claridad. Y pensarás que eres tú la que está pensando. Una imagen pensada. Pero no. Es cuando tropiezas con un recuerdo que le pertenece a otro.”

Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Beloved

“Era la selva que los blancos plantaban en ellos.”

Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Beloved

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“El lenguaje solo nos protege de lo aterrador de las cosas sin nombres. El lenguaje solo es meditación.”

Toni Morrison

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“Un sueño es solo una pesadilla con lápiz labial.”

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“Yo escribo para los negros, no tengo porqué pedir disculpas por eso.”

Toni Morrison

Fuente, &quot;Toni Morrison: ‘I’m writing for black people … I don’t have to apologise&quot;. <br class="br">Fuente: Toni Morrison: ‘I’m writing for black people … I don’t have to apologise https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/25/toni-morrison-books-interview-god-help-the-child The Guardian

“Me aburre mucho la gente que dice encontrar cosas poéticas en mis escritos. La buena prosa es poética. Mi noción de la poesía es que tiene que tener esa vida subterránea.”

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Fuente, Toni Morrison: Conversations. <br class="br">Original: «I used to get very annoyed at people who said there were poetic things in my writing. Godd prose is poetic.[...] My notion of prose is that it has to have this underground life». <br class="br">Fuente: Toni Morrison: Conversations https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=eV9_8v4pTzsC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=toni+morrison&amp;hl=es-419&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=toni%20morrison&amp;f=false

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“Eres tu mejor cosa”

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Toni Morrison: Frases en inglés

“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 libro Beloved

Fuente: 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 libro Sula

Fuente: 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 libro Song of Solomon

Fuente: 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 libro Beloved

Fuente: Beloved

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

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Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Fuente: Beloved

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

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Toni Morrison libro Beloved

Fuente: 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 libro Paradise

Fuente: 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 libro The Bluest Eye

Fuente: 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 libro Sula

Fuente: Sula

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

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Toni Morrison libro God Help the Child

Fuente: 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 libro The Bluest Eye

Fuente: 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 libro Beloved

Fuente: 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 libro Sula

Sula (1973)

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

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Toni Morrison libro Paradise

Fuente: 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 libro Jazz

Fuente: 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 libro The Bluest Eye

Fuente: 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

Fuente: Love

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

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Toni Morrison libro God Help the Child

Fuente: 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 libro Beloved

Fuente: 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 libro God Help the Child

Fuente: 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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Toni Morrison

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 libro Sula

Fuente: 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 libro Sula

Fuente: 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 libro Song of Solomon

Fuente: Song of Solomon