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Toni Morrison

"You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore."

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"You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie."

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Donna Grant

"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse."

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"When insulted by injustice, face it, stand up against it and demand your right and justice."

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"Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile."Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!"

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Donna Grant

"In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me."

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"There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt."

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Donna Grant

"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

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Donna Grant

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you."

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"She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither."

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"I don't want to be the devil's bitch!"

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"Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?"
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"It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years."
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"There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk."
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"Jump, if you want to, 'cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you "fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I'll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I'm not saying this because I need a place to stay. That's the last thing I need. I told you, I'm a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; 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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"She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind."
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"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."
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