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Toni Morrison Quotes about Love

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison
Love, Responsibility, Revolutionary

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Toni Morrison
Love, Self Respect, Humiliation

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Toni Morrison
Love, Fall, Thinking
Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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

Toni Morrison
Love, Inspiring, Sad Love

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

Toni Morrison
Love, Inspirational, Thinking
Toni Morrison (1998). “Paradise”, Knopf

She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

Toni Morrison
Love, Country, Children
Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

Toni Morrison
Love, Baby, Children

Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

Toni Morrison
Love, Sex, Couple

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