托妮·莫里森

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”

英语

“你想飞翔，就得放下那些压得你喘不过气的东西。”

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

英语

“如果有一本你想读的书，但它还没有被写出来，那你就必须自己去写。”

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

英语

“解放自己是一回事，宣称对那个自由的自我的所有权是另一回事。”

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”

英语

“定义属于定义者，而不是被定义者。”

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

英语

“在这个国家，“美国人”意味着白人。其他所有人都必须加连字符。”