Toni Morrison Quotes about Hurt

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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Toni Morrison

Hurt, Beloved, Coming Back

Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.32, Random House

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Toni Morrison

Gratitude, Hurt, Beer

Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

Toni Morrison

Baby, Hurt, Funny Things

Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

Toni Morrison

Hurt, Everyday, Scream

Toni Morrison (1998). “Paradise”, Knopf

All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

Toni Morrison

Beautiful, Hurt, Book

"Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.