 “ (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion - because hatred is involved in it, too. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a bodyfriendly if not familiarlying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ ...the change was adjustment without improvement. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ ...because slave life had "busted her legs, back, head, eyes, hands, kidneys, womb and tongue," she had nothing left to make a living with but her heartwhich she put to work at once. Accepting no title of honor before her name, but allowing a small caress after it, she became an unchurched preacher, one who visited pulpits and opened her great heart to those who could use it. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ ...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ ...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier that only birds and planes could fly he lost all interest in himself. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves a special kind of double. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ ...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ After situating herself on a huge flatsided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the trees. They knew she was ready when she put her stick down. Then she shouted, 'Let the children come!' and they ran from the trees toward her. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well...I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71). ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves, a special kind of double. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, getondown music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild...It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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“ All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you. ” ~ Toni Morrison
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