Toni Morrison frasi celebri
Frasi sulla vita di Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Frasi e Citazioni
The Bluest Eye
Origine: Amatissima, p. 265
Origine: Amatissima, p. 212
Origine: Amatissima, p. 106
Paul D e Sethe: p. 239
Amatissima
Origine: Amatissima, p. 180
Origine: Amatissima, p. 352
“Toccami. Toccami dentro e chiamami col mio nome.”
Amata a Paul D, ripetutamente
Amatissima
Toni Morrison: Frasi in inglese
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
Contesto: Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference — the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Origine: The Bluest Eye
As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994).
“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
Origine: Beloved
“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”
Origine: The Bluest Eye