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Something Quotes by Toni Morrison
- What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say…
- Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to…
- All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I…
- I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to…
- Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
- I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had…
- 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…
- Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
- I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that…
- And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly.…
- The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
- Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that…
- She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of…
- Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well,…
- Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
- I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it…
- I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I…
- 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…
- People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So…
- Something that is loved is never lost.
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle