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Home Quotes & Sayings Toni Morrison Quotes (About Beauty, Envy & Jealousy, History, Idea, Love, Mind, Thought & Thinking)

Toni Morrison Quotes: Along with the idea of romantic love, she…

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

("The Bluest Eye")

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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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