stony morrison, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

stony morrison, PhD

Sixo talking about the Thirty-Mile Woman: “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind." —Toni Morrison, Beloved

stony morrison, PhD

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. The language of the camera is the language of our dreams. —James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work (1976) https://t.co/4MbzOyZ1FM

stony morrison, PhD

“Many writers today have a system: every system is a pose, and every pose is an insult to beauty. Cultivate the art of omission, of elimination, of implication: that is the secret of strength.” —A. G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (1921)

stony morrison, PhD

But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. —James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)

stony morrison, PhD

"Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" is an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black; the wasting is done by a cultural engine that seems to have been designed specifically to murder possibilities..." —John Leonard, 1970