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Things Quotes by Toni Morrison
- 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…
- The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do…
- I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
- 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…
- All important things are hard.
- If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
- And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
- I don't do the things other people call "play."
- Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
- I get angry about things, then go on and work.
- Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run…
- Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets…
- It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
- ...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch…
- For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. 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…
- But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my…
- There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
- Much handled things are always soft(27).
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