#morris

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#love #toni-morrison #love

Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms. ↗

— Jennifer Ashley

#liam-morrisey #men

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres. ↗

— Morrissey

#morrissey #select- #humor

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#become #better #black #books #clone

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#toni-morrison #writing #business

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#demons #destroy #either #freddie #game

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#came #decent #human #human being #i

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do." Afterword by the Author(c)1993 ↗

— Toni Morrison

#the-bluest-eye #toni-morrison #beauty

Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. (Paul D.) ↗

— Toni Morrison

#toni-morrison #change