Quotes about Perspective
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
— Toni Morrison
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.
— Toni Morrison
she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
— Toni Morrison
Funny how you lose sight of some things and memory others.
— Toni Morrison
I refused to explain, or even acknowledge, the "problem" as anything other than an artistic one.
— Toni Morrison
A perfect thing is not everything.
— Toni Morrison
Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn't limit my imagination; it expands it," Toni Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today
— Toni Morrison
Maybe I am different now, Twyla. But you're not. You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor old black lady when she was down on the ground. You kicked a black lady and you have the nerve to call me a bigot.
— Toni Morrison
Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would only see what there was to see: the eyes of other people.
— Toni Morrison
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
— Toni Morrison
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction.
— Toni Morrison
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.
— Toni Morrison