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Love Quotes by Toni Morrison

83 Love quotes by Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison writes that love is something you rise into, not fall into, and that it can turn ordinary life into a heroic event. She notes that love mirrors the character of the person who loves, for wicked or weak people love in kind. She also links love to the hope of a shared tomorrow.

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When a man angers you, he conquers you.

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“We will be judged by how well we love.”

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Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

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I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.

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If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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Love is divine only and difficult always.

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

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“I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made…

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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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“My melancholy thoughts are back. But I still love the idea of love.”

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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

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Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?

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Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

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Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

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Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is…

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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of…

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Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord.…

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I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really…

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“He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, ostensibly to avoid hurting her breasts but actually to keep…

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“Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to…

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More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you…

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Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back…

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“Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be…

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But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some…

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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that…

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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her…

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The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a…

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“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her…

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“Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow." He leans over and…

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This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the…

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“Little of that makes for love, but it does pump desire. The woman who churned a man's blood as she leaned all…

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“She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of…

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“She talked like that. But I understood what she meant. About having another you inside that isn't anything like you. Dorcas and…

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She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…

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“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated…

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“Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you…

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“They come from Mobile. Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Meridian. And the sounds of these places in their mouths make…

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“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never…

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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that…

All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had…

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.…

“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”

“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”

“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself,…

“There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks”

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”