Toni Morrison Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

  Toni Morrison

  Hate, Race, Play

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]

  Toni Morrison

  Anger, Thinking, Skills

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Jul 29, 2011

• Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

  Toni Morrison

  Sweet, Writing, Thinking

• the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing Everything, Feelings, Dry

• Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Envy, Hatred

• There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving, Feelings, Working Together

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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