Toni Morrison

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1931 age 0

   Born

2. 1998 age 67

   CreditBelovedscreenwriter

3. 2019 age 88

   Died

• JCJude Ciccolella1 title
• JDJonathan Demme1 title
• CNCharles Napier1 title
• TWTracey Walter1 title
• PLPaul Lazar1 title
• HNHarry Northup1 title
• ESEdward Saxon1 title
• RBRon Bozman1 title
• TFTak Fujimoto1 title
• GGGary Goetzman1 title

• Influenced by

  • WFWilliam Faulkner
  • JBJames Baldwin
  • DLDoris Lessing
  • ZHZora Neale Hurston

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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• Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty.

  Toni Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There is really nothing more to say — except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

  Toni Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about "us"; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

  Toni Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Was there anything so loathsome as a wilfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

  Toni Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  Toni Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0