Quotes About Beloved Toni Morrison

#1. The only thing man has never done is what he hasn't thought about.

Richmond Akhigbe

#2. There was no bad luck in the world but whitepeople. 'They don't know when to stop,' she said, and returned to her bed, pulled up the quilt and left them to hold that thought forever.

Toni Morrison

#3. Beginning Beloved with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

Toni Morrison

#4. I always wanted to do a Western.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth.

Toni Morrison

#6. You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.

Toni Morrison

#7. The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?

Toni Morrison

#9. Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
Drops in a silent autumn night.
All its allotted length of days
The flower ripens in its place,
Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#10. Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.

Toni Morrison

#11. Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

Gore Vidal

#12. I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

Cindy Sheehan

#13. Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

Toni Morrison

#14. Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to explain a thing.

Toni Morrison

#15. Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.

Frederick Lenz

#16. No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Toni Morrison

#17. I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

David Attenborough

#18. The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could take the next step: ask for some clarifying word; some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

Toni Morrison

#19. The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.

Toni Morrison

#20. If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

Toni Morrison

#21. The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

Toni Morrison

#23. Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder

Toni Morrison

#24. If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

Maya Angelou

#25. Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [ ... ] School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. (Paul D.)

Toni Morrison

#26. Yours is the face that matters most. So yours is the one I wear. My unconscious reflection of you.

Jodi Meadows

#27. Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Toni Morrison

#28. He was already in hell, already dead as far as he was concerned. Do your worst, you evil bitch.

Donna Grant

#29. Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't know which way to go.

Toni Morrison

#30. Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

Wiz Khalifa

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

Toni Morrison

#32. Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

F. Paul Wilson

#33. Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Toni Morrison