3. "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." - Beloved
4. "It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being." - Song of Solomon
7. "Love is never any better than the lover. " - The Bluest Eye
8. "She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?" - Song of Solomon
11. "You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself." - Song of Solomon
12. "Lonely was much better than alone." - The Bluest Eye
15. "It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you." - Sula
16. "Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be." - Beloved
19. "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
20. "It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow." - Sula
23. "I 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." - Conversations With Toni Morrison
24. "There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
27. "What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?" - Jazz
28. "A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick." - Love
31. "The hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything.)" - Jazz
32. "I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you … If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water." - Conversations with Toni Morrison.
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