(February 18th 1931-August 5th 2019)
A legend
Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison born February 18, 1931. She was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus of Princeton University.
Many of her works, the Bluest Eye, Songs of Solomon, Tar baby, Beloved and so on earned her a Nobel Laurette as the first black woman, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Presidential Medal of Freedom and PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
Toni, has been an inspiration to many both young and old and the entire iSparkle Knect team celebrate not her death but her works and word of wisdom.
Here are 20 most motivational words from our legend, Toni Morrison.
1. You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
2. No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.
3. I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.
4. I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
5. We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
6. If you surrender to the wind you can ride it
7. I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
8. But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
9. Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
10. What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
11. Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
12. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations...
13. Something that is loved is never lost
14. To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
15. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
16. A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
17. The function of freedom is to free someone else.
18. As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
19. If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
20. Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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