Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that...
TONI MORRISON Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON She was terrorized. Seeking to defend herself, she bit, but it was in reaction to the aggression tha...
EMMANUEL DAOUD One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself...
RIDLEY PEARSON She was polished, and carried herself well. Danny was a bit of a diamond-in-the-rough.
STEVE MENDELSON Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON She was the one holding the thing together. She was very certain of her herself.
ALEX PANTAROTTO We lost the hose, the note, quite a bit of evidence there. It was just one thing after another.
BRUCE BARTLETT I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
JAMILA WOODS You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'
'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
BRET EASTON ELLIS She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself.
DEBBIE DOOL Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from...
LISA KLEYPAS She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ...
PAULO COELHO The ballet was the thing to which she was really committed - the film industry was a bit of a distra...
LUDOVIC KENNEDY Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin...
JUNOT DIAZ They told her she would be freed if she made the video. She was also told they had killed another Am...
ELLEN TUTTLE I thought she sold quite well. That was quite a bit over the reserve. We have one other filly here t...
DUNCAN TAYLOR I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.
V. THEIA When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ...
SUNIL YAPA You may not be able to move the mountain with one hit, but you can do so by picking up the rocks bit...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Leah had a great year. She had some injuries early and we had to kind of watch her a little bit. But...
STEVE WAMMER Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.
BRYANT MCGILL She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Whe...
NORA ROBERTS She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she prefer...
ÉMILE ZOLA It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall...
ELIZABETH DUNN I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON She was taking up quite a bit of our time.
CLAUDIO MANNO Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON I turned my attention to every thing that was done by people who claimed to be Christians, I was h...
LEO TOLSTOY Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [...]
NEIL GAIMAN She went out a little too quick, and wasn't very relaxed early on. But she settled down and got out ...
EDDIE KENNEALLY I think we just sucked it up a little bit and one thing led to another.
JAMES AUGUSTINE Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac...
ANNE LAMOTT It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false ...
ANNA GODBERSEN Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif...
WALTER MARTIN I think that settled everybody down a little bit. It also gave us a lot of confidence. It was anothe...
HOLLY LONG I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON She deserved to win this one, I was a little bit lucky, ... I have no excuse for serving like that.
ELENA DEMENTIEVA It choked me up a bit to see that. That was a nice thing by Big Buch. He was around Puck enough to r...
RON GARDENHIRE This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existenc...
DANIELLE MONSCH I was a bit sceptical about Anthony because he had a bit of a bad attitude and he really turned that...
DEBORAH HUTTON He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herse...
KATE CHOPIN There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter ...
PAT SUMMERALL Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner. The one overriding goal we h...
BUD SELIG She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort...
HENRY JAMES That was huge. Richard had a little bit of his swagger back tonight.
RICK STANSBURY She was a beautiful person. She was always doing things for people. I called her the rescue ranger. ...
AUTRAULIA HARRIS She stumbled a little bit (at the start) and was lugging out a little bit the whole way. Hopefully, ...
ALEX SOLIS Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been pl...
DAVID KIRK I had a gut feeling that Dance Daily was coming up to it very well. I felt that she would make a lit...
D. WAYNE LUKAS She was a teensy bit not quite into her space. She usually is.
JOANNE MCLEOD That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told h...
LAUREN OLIVER A little bit! To try your best is the first thing, and I did do that. There was a little bit of bad ...
ALLAN DAVIS She was alert, talking and recognizing people, a little bit fuzzy, of course.
FRED ZIMNY She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds ea...
DOUGLAS ADAMS She pitched very well. I thought she had good control. She was around the strike zone. She mixed it ...
LES SHEPARD I think that was a big shot to give us a bit of momentum, just to pull us ahead a little bit. It was...
JAMI SAFRIT Our client is a bit confused, although the translator had already told her that it was a life senten...
HAPOSAN SIHOMBING I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and ...
URI GELLER Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i...
ARIEL PINK You just fight. In the first set she just had that little bit extra, and it was the same for me in t...
FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig...
TERRY WOGAN We had one fan who made action figures of all of us. Mine had a mirror, which I thought was a bit ch...
IAN WATKINS She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*
TERRY PRATCHETT Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts o...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE She wasn't the least bit depressed. She was talking about going to Mexico. She had a Mexican boyfrie...
JAMES BACON She wasn't the least bit depressed. She was talking about going to Mexico. She had a Mexican boyfrie...
JAMES BACON I made an error and kept compounding things with another to the point my confidence was a bit shot b...
DREW MITCHELL Tami had it going tonight. It was one of those nights where we wanted her to carry us a little bit. ...
JEFF PUSTINA Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.
STEPHEN M. IRWIN We saw everybody you can think of. But Toni was always the one in my mind. I knew she could disappea...
TONI COLLETTE The notion that (Morrison) wasn't aware of it is a bit disingenuous. Everybody on the board seemed t...
JACK SPERANZA It's a real test but I don't fear it. I was a little bit uneasy and a little bit in limbo because it...
ALEX MCLEISH Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was qualit...
SANDRA DALLAS It was tough the last few years watching my best friend be systematically destroyed bit by bit by th...
DENNIS VAUGHN You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
BARBARA CASTLE Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
G. K. CHESTERTON We've had one storm after another, but the rivers have gotten one day or two to dry out a bit.
GARY BARBATO These kisses... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything sh...
TESSA DARE I'm proud of every one of them. It was a great team effort and also a bit of a traumatic experience ...
DON WILSON She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew hersel...
ANN BRASHARES although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ...
E. LOCKHART She had a brother. Yet she had claimed she’d be alone if the camp sorted her by her godly parent.
RICK RIORDAN The doctor is with her now. She was not feeling well after inspection this morning. She was a bit we...
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TONI MORRISON In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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TONI MORRISON Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'
'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
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TONI MORRISON Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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TONI MORRISON It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON 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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TONI MORRISON I’m crazy about this City.
Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half....
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TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
TONI MORRISON Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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TONI MORRISON (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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TONI MORRISON All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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TONI MORRISON Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eigh...
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TONI MORRISON As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer
TONI MORRISON And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
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TONI MORRISON florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lin...
TONI MORRISON What is the nature of Othering's comfort, its allure, its power (social, psychological, or economica...
TONI MORRISON Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu...
TONI MORRISON Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has...
TONI MORRISON All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beaut...
TONI MORRISON guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...
TONI MORRISON To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; ...
TONI MORRISON I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost co...
TONI MORRISON No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that ...
TONI MORRISON For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must ...
TONI MORRISON It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...
TONI MORRISON As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISON Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...
TONI MORRISON He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe....
TONI MORRISON But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISON This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...
TONI MORRISON I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one ...
TONI MORRISON Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the s...
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TONI MORRISON The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fr...
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TONI MORRISON But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
TONI MORRISON Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other ti...
TONI MORRISON There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy...
TONI MORRISON I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you ca...
TONI MORRISON Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far ...
TONI MORRISON You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
TONI MORRISON you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactles...
TONI MORRISON In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the...
TONI MORRISON Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
TONI MORRISON It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire an...
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma...
TONI MORRISON Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dange...
TONI MORRISON Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'
Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being ali...
TONI MORRISON Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISON They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lov...
TONI MORRISON Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If ...
TONI MORRISON if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
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TONI MORRISON There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a livi...
TONI MORRISON That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, o...
TONI MORRISON Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the m...
TONI MORRISON Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
TONI MORRISON Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a...
TONI MORRISON Her passions were narrow but deep.
TONI MORRISON God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
TONI MORRISON What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...
TONI MORRISON The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
TONI MORRISON Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed raven...
TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement.
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
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TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE