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Able Quotes by Toni Morrison
- There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
- Being able to laugh got me through.
- I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
- The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
- Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal…
- What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.…
- When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and…
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