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Back Quotes by Toni Morrison
- The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
- And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
- The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all…
- All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
- Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
- 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…
- I dream a dream that dreams back at me
- True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a…
- They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm…
- 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 children she had…
- Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your…
- Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started:…
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