Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
Toni MorrisonAmerican means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
Toni MorrisonIn fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.
Toni MorrisonI have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.
Toni Morrison