Tony Morrison > Quotes

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Tony Morrison

“Twenty, thirty years from now, he thought, all sorts of people will claim pivotal, controlling, defining positions in the rights movement. A few would be justifies. Most would be frauds. What could not be gainsaid, but would remain invisible in the newspapers and the books he bought for his students, were the ordinary folk. The janitor who turned off the switch so the police couldn't see; the grandmother who kept all the babies so the mothers could march; ...; the old who gathered up the broken bodies of the young; the young who spread their arms wide to protect the old from batons they could not possibly survive....Yes, twenty, thirty years from now, those people will be dead or forgotten, their small stories part of no grand record or even its footnotes, although they were the ones who formed the spine on which the televised ones stood.”
― Tony Morrison

“No obstante, los seres humanos, como especie avanzada que es, tenemos tendencia a aislar a quienes no forman parte de nuestro clan y a considerarlo enemigos, seres vulnerables y deficientes que requieren control, y esa tendencia viene de lejos y no se limita al mundo animal ni al hombre prehistórico. La raza ha sido un criterio constante de diferenciación, lo mismo que la riqueza, la clase y el sexo, tres categorías determinadas por el poder y la necesidad de control”.”
― Tony Morrison

“Love is or it ain't, thin love ain't love at all.”
― Tony Morrison