40 Toni Morrison Quotes On Love From Beloved & More
Last updated on January 5th, 2024 at 10:51 am
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford, popularly known as Toni Morrison, was one of the most successful American novelists, editors and professors. She had depicted the real-life struggle of African American community through her work. Her parents inculcated in her the love for writing from her early childhood days. She faced racism but never lowered her guards of integrity.
She passed away in 2019. But her work has kept her alive. Her ideology and strong beliefs are hard to forget. She was honored with the prestigious Noble Prize and Pulitzer Prize for her contribution to the literary world. Winning the Noble Prize has been a huge accomplishment as she was the first African American woman to achieve this feat.
She has written many books, including ‘The Bluest Eye’, ‘Beloved’, ‘Sula’, and ‘Song of Solomon’. ‘Sula’ has been her greatest hit of all times. Her words work as a source of inspiration for many people. She has empowered people of colour through her impactful writings.
Internationally acclaimed writer Toni Morrison received praises from her critics. Her life has been full of motivation for all. Her work will be remembered generations after generation. Here is a list of some famous Toni Morrison quotes.
Toni Morrison Quotes On Love
Here are some Toni Morrison quotes about the idea of pure love. You are definitely going to fall in love with these.
“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another – physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.”
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“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.”
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“Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”
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“Don’t ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
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SOURCE: JAZZ
“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.”
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SOURCE: PARADISE
“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams, and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
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“This word, love, is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.”
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“Something that is loved is never lost.”
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“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
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“Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? “
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SOURCE: SONG OF SOLOMON
Beloved Toni Morrison Quotes
‘Beloved’ novel was published in 1987. It was based on the real-life story of a Black woman named Margaret Garner. The story revolves around the family of enslaved people. Here are some Toni Morrison quotes from the novel.
“Everything depends on knowing how much – and good is knowing when to stop.”
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
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SOURCE: FACEBOOK
“It’s good you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
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SOURCE: FACEBOOK
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
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SOURCE: BELOVED
“‘Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed’, she said, ‘and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but white folks.'”
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“I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward – it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.”
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“All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that’s all I remember.”
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“Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.”
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“Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.”
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“It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.”
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“It’s not about choosing somebody over her. It’s about making space for somebody along with her.”
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“It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.”
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“But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.”
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Toni Morrison Sula Quotes
The novel ‘Sula’ was published in 1973. This story is about two black women, Sula and Nel. Their journey from life to death. Here are some Toni Morrison quotes from this novel.
“Birth, life, and death – each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”
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“There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.”
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“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”
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“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”
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“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”
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“Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don’t get nothing for it.”
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“The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.’ Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.”
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“It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.”
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“I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”
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“It wasn’t death, or dying, that frightened him but the unexpectedness of both.”
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“She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? No. Too dark. The bathroom. It was both small and bright, and she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief. Bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.”
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