Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.
Toni MorrisonThey laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
Toni MorrisonTags: inspirational laughter
He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers.
‘Me? Me?
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They did not believe Nature was ever askew–only inconvenient. Plague and drought were as “natural” as springtime. If milk could curdle, God knows robins could fall.
Toni MorrisonShe is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
Sixo
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
Toni MorrisonOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
Toni MorrisonNo more running-from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this Earth. I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D. Garner: it cost too much!
Toni MorrisonCome see," I was thinking. "Be the last thing you behold,
Toni MorrisonMake a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
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