Lay my head on the railroad line. Train come along; pacify my mind.
("Beloved")
More Quotes from Toni Morrison:
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.Toni Morrison
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
Toni Morrison
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
Toni Morrison
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.
Toni Morrison
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Mind QuotesBased on Keywords: pacify
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
Daniel Ellsberg
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
David Hilbert
I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.
Shaquille ONeal