Frases de Toni Morrison (190 citações, página 4)

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Toni Morrison Frases famosas

“Se há um livro que você quer ler, mas não foi escrito ainda, então você deve escrevê-lo.”

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“Andar feito um rótulo ambulante não me faz criar boa literatura.”

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“Sou uma pessoa controversa. Meus amigos ou não gostam de mim ou me odeiam.”

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I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1978

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“Amado, você é minha irmã, você é minha filha, você é meu rosto; tu és eu.”

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“Mas, para descobrir a verdade sobre como os sonhos morrem, nunca se deve aceitar a palavra do sonhador.”

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“Você não tem que me amar, mas você muito bem tem que me respeitar.”

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Toni Morrison: Frases em inglês

“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 livro Beloved

Fonte: 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 livro Sula

Fonte: 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 livro Song of Solomon

Fonte: 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 livro Beloved

Fonte: Beloved

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

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Toni Morrison livro Beloved

Fonte: Beloved

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

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Toni Morrison livro Beloved

Fonte: 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 livro Paradise

Fonte: 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 livro The Bluest Eye

Fonte: 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 livro Sula

Fonte: Sula

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

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Toni Morrison livro God Help the Child

Fonte: 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 livro The Bluest Eye

Fonte: 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 livro Beloved

Fonte: Beloved

“You been gone too long, Sula.

Not too long, but maybe too far.”

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Toni Morrison livro Sula

Fonte: Sula

“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 livro Sula

Sula (1973)

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

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Toni Morrison livro Paradise

Fonte: 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 livro Jazz

Fonte: 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 livro The Bluest Eye

Fonte: 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

Fonte: Love

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

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Toni Morrison livro God Help the Child

Fonte: 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 livro Beloved

Fonte: Beloved

“… the change was adjustment without improvement.”

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Toni Morrison livro The Bluest Eye

Fonte: The Bluest Eye

“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 livro God Help the Child

Fonte: 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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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 livro Sula

Fonte: 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 livro Sula

Fonte: 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 livro Song of Solomon

Fonte: Song of Solomon

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