"You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you..."
- Toni Morrison
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."
"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."
"You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Someb..."
"Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace ..."
"if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away"
"In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; ..."
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurit..."
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."