Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.
Toni MorrisonThey had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen.
Toni MorrisonClever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
Toni MorrisonMy children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Toni MorrisonAnger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling โ I don't think it's any of that โ it's helpless ... it's absence of control โ and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that โ I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]
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