She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was. β¨ Toni Morrison (1987). Sula
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- If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. β¨ Shirley Marie Jordan, Toni Morrison (1986). An Analysis of the Female Experience in the Novels of Toni Morrison
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- I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naΓ―ve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the worl β¦ βΆ
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