Toni Morrison Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Black, Magic

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Miracle, Magic

• Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Sex, Couple

• If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

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