Language Quote by Toni Morrison

“Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.”

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Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

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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 meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the…

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“Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder”

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“Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense?”

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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

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“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that…

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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he…

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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.…

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“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”

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“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”

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“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it’s not a twinkle, it’s more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they can’t throb anymore, when they can’t hold…

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