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Home Quotes & Sayings Toni Morrison Quotes (About Beauty, Enemy, Envy & Jealousy, Fear, Hatred, Time)

Toni Morrison Quotes: Jealousy we understood and thought natural…but envy was…

Jealousy we understood and thought natural...but envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

("The Bluest Eye")

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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.
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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
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Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.
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