Quotes about Perspective
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
Anna clung to him while he explained that the scorpion's tail was up because it was just as scared of her as she was of it. In Detroit, watching baby-faced police handling guns, she remembered the scorpion's rigid tail.
— Toni Morrison