Top 27 Toni Morrison Beloved Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
Toni Morrison
#3. Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
Toni Morrison
#4. 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
#5. I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.
Tami Hoag
#6. Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
Toni Morrison
#7. Stories are not lists, decks, Power-Points, flip charts, lectures, pleas, instructions, regulations, manifestos, calculations, lesson plans, threats, statistics, evidence, orders, or raw facts.
Peter Guber
#8. 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
#9. The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
Joseph Stiglitz
#10. Come to my reality, but day or night, don't make me stop dreaming.
Nico J. Genes
#11. Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
Toni Morrison
#12. Individuals of one species are the same in essence or substance. Two human beings differ from one another in matter, but are the same in essence, as being both rational animals. The essential human quality which distinguishes the species Man from all other species is identical in both.
Aldous Huxley
#13. I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Toni Morrison
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
Toni Morrison
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
Toni Morrison
#21. How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
Toni Morrison
#23. Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
Anthony Weiner
#24. Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
Toni Morrison
#25. 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
#26. 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
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