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Nothing Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a…
- I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your…
- Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the…
- A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody
- The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should…
- Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
- You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
- The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what…
- In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
- There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
- There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
- the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing…
- 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 had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The…
- Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed?…
- But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight…
- 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…
- Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if…
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman