It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
Toni MorrisonI don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Toni MorrisonHer mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.
Toni MorrisonWell, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.
Toni Morrison