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Toni Morrison quotes

American Novelist February 18, 1931

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Toni Morrison quote: "The freezing in hell that comes before the everlasting fire..."
The freezing in hell that comes before the everlasting fire where sinners bubble and singe forever. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Come see," I was thinking. "Be the last thing you behold,"
Come see," I was thinking. "Be the last thing you behold, Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what..."
Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own. Toni Morrison
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. Toni Morrison
Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable. Toni Morrison
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't..."
You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore. Toni Morrison
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Toni Morrison
I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away"
if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away Toni Morrison
...and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real..."
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not? Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit..."
Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit... Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never."
Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to..."
You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose. Toni Morrison

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