In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.
Toni MorrisonIf you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
Toni MorrisonLove is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
Toni MorrisonI always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
Toni MorrisonI have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."
Toni Morrison