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15 Of Toni Morrison's Most Beautiful Quotes

"Thin love ain't love at all."

Celah Convis

Aug 06, 2019

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15 Of Toni Morrison's Most Beautiful Quotes

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Yesterday, Toni Morrison, one of the greatest American novelists of all time, died. For countless readers, Morrison's words have moved, inspired, and challenged us. Here are 15 of Morrison's most beautiful quotes from her books, although her beautiful words are certainly more numerous to count.

1. From Song of Solomon:

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"You want to fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

2. From Beloved:

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"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

3. From The Bluest Eye:

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"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's inward eye."

4. From Beloved:

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"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."

5. From Sula:

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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."

6. From Jazz:

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"But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind."

7. From Sula:

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"Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous."

8. From Beloved:

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"There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place."

9. From Song of Solomon:

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"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

10. From Sula:

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"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."

11. From Jazz:

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"Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder.
And I the eye of the storm."

12. From Beloved:

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"He wants to put his story next to hers."

13. From The Bluest Eye:

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"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

14: From A Mercy:

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"I dream a dream that dreams back at me"

15. From God Help the Child:

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"You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me."

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"Thin love ain't love at all."

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2. From Beloved:

3. From The Bluest Eye:

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5. From Sula:

6. From Jazz:

7. From Sula:

8. From Beloved:

9. From Song of Solomon:

10. From Sula:

11. From Jazz:

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13. From The Bluest Eye:

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The Best Lines from the Fab Four

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make

The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you

Love is old, love is new, love is all, love is you

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend

He say, "I know you, you know me", One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

Oh please, say to me, You'll let me be your man. And please say to me, You'll let me hold your hand

It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. They've been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

Can you hear me? When it rains and shine, it's just a state of mind

Little darling, it's been long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it' s been here. Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say it's alright

We danced through the night and we held each other tight, and before too long I fell in love with her. Now, I'll never dance with another when I saw her standing there

I love you, I love you, I love you, that's all I want to say

You say you want a revolution. Well you know, we all want to change the world

All the lonely people, where do they all come from. All the lonely people, where do they all belong

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday

And when the brokenhearted people, living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.

And anytime you feel the pain, Hey Jude, refrain. Don't carry the world upon your shoulders

I'll give you all I got to give if you say you'll love me too. I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you. I don't care too much for money. Money can't buy me love

All you need is love, love is all you need

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Blackbird singing in the dead of night, Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Though I know I'll never lose affection, for people and things that went before. I know I'll often stop and think about them. In my life, I love you more

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