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Time Quotes by Toni Morrison
- All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
- 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…
- The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
- 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…
- There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.…
- For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
- The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really…
- 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,…
- 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…
- This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me…
- Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was…
- How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different…
- For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds…
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- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle