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

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Beloved

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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It takes a village to raise a child.

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Morrison, Toni. Quoted in Essence. Apr. 1984.

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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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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.

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

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Morrison, Toni. "The Language Must Not Sweat." Interviewed by Thomas LeClair. The New Republic, 21 Mar. 1981.

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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Morrison, Toni. "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear." The Nation: 150th Anniversary Special, 23 Mar. 2015.

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