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American Novelist February 18, 1931

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Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "You already alone. If you want more alone, I can knock you..."
You already alone. If you want more alone, I can knock you into the middle of next week, and leave you there. Toni Morrison
O Jesus, I could be a mule or plow the furrows with my hands if need be or hold those rickety walls up with my back if need be if I knew that somewhere in this world in the pocket of some night I could open my legs to some cowboy lean hips but you are trying to tell me no and O my sweet Jesus what kind of cross is that? Toni Morrison
Together they stood in the doorway. For Sethe it was as though the Clearing had come to her with all its heat and simmering leaves, where the voices of women searched for the right combination, the key, the code, the sound that broke the back of words. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man..."
I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight. Toni Morrison
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. Toni Morrison
They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen. Toni Morrison
She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered..."
It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn't been..."
If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "If there's a book you want to read and it hasn't been written..."
If there's a book you want to read and it hasn't been written yet you must write it. Toni Morrison
They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp. Toni Morrison
...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself. Toni Morrison
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 the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my remory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened. Toni Morrison
But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead, healthy children. More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of thiers was an accusation of failure, a mockery of her own. Toni Morrison

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