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Way Quotes by Toni Morrison
- 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…
- Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other…
- 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…
- You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what…
- 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.…
- What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
- I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go…
- Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,…
- Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction…
- I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
- No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
- In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she…
- 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…
- 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…
- Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the…
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