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Out Quotes by Toni Morrison
- There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
- I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
- ...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable…
- She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but…
- No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound…
- Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long,…
- 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…
- 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…
- You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was…
- It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that…
- She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and…
- Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside.…
- 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…
- In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at…
- Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When…
- Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a…
- But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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