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Toni Morrison Quotes: Never did he once consider directing his hatred…

Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.

("The Bluest Eye")

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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds - cooled - and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.
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Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.
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