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Head Quotes by Toni Morrison
- The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
- 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…
- I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head…
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but…
- Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.
- When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she…
- Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.
- Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the…
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