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It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding
– Toni Morrison

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  1. Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent. – Toni Morrison
  2. Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy’s. – Toni Morrison
  3. Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. – Toni Morrison
  4. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! – Virginia Woolf
  5. His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding. – Robert Thier
  6. …when you’re hard and unyielding your words score me with lines – I hate lines – I want curves – curves are happy like a snowman … – John Geddes
  7. He snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her into him with an unyielding strength. She’d been unmistakably seized. – Elizabeth SaFleur
  8. But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer. – Toni Morrison
  9. You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face. – Toni Morrison
  10. As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison
  11. Her passions were narrow but deep. – Toni Morrison
  12. You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. – Toni Morrison
  13. Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. – Toni Morrison
  14. It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love … You can’t own a human being. – Toni Morrison
  15. In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison
  16. Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison
  17. Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose. – Toni Morrison
  18. Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison
  19. If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison – Sean Liburd
  20. More it hurt more better it is. Can’t nothing heal without pain, you know. – Toni Morrison
  21. I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. – Toni Morrison
  22. The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind. – Toni Morrison
  23. He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone. – Toni Morrison
  24. No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. – Toni Morrison
  25. The best thing she was, was her children. – Toni Morrison
  26. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. – Toni Morrison
  27. The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it’s in mortal danger. – Toni Morrison
  28. You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose. – Toni Morrison
  29. Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear. – Toni Morrison
  30. Lonely was much better than alone. – Toni Morrison
  31. She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. – Toni Morrison
  32. You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. – Toni Morrison
  33. She missed — without knowing what she missed– paints and crayons – Toni Morrison
  34. We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer’s movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious. – Toni Morrison
  35. Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible. – Toni Morrison
  36. What’s fair ain’t necessarily right. – Toni Morrison
  37. You got a life? Live it! Live the mother????in’ life! – Toni Morrison
  38. Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon. – Toni Morrison
  39. Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. – Toni Morrison
  40. We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives. – Toni Morrison

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