There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks

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Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

Toni Morrison


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Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass.
Neither one had spoken a word.

Toni Morrison

Mots clés magic-realism toni-morrison sula realismo-mágico



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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

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She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

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I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.

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Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

Toni Morrison

Mots clés love people the-bluest-eye



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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

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Mots clés dreams dreamer thruth



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Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own.

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