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Toni Morrison

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

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"He talking Louisiana, you speaking Tennessee. The music so different, the sound coming from a different part of the body. It must of been like hearing lyrics set to scores by two different composers. But when you made love he must of have said I love you and you understood that and it was true, too, because I have seen the desperation in his eyes ever since-no matter what business venture he thinks up."
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"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."
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"Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence."
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"I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive."
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