Toni Morrison Quotes - Page 6 of 9

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.
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Bird

Boys

Four
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the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)
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Dry

Feelings

Knowing Everything
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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.
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Made

Mines
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I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison / Novelist
Smile

Annoyed

Contempt

People

Understanding

Always People Black

Totally

Bear

Brunt

Always Black People

Demons

Smiling

Suddenly
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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 / Novelist
Running

Amount

Cities

Complicity

Enormous

School

Violence

City

None

Schools

Victims
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The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
Toni Morrison / Novelist
Ideas

Should Have

World
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