The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Interpretation
This quote highlights how love can help us understand and reclaim our true selves through connection with others.
In this quote, Toni Morrison expresses the profound impact that a significant relationship can have on an individual’s sense of self. It suggests that through understanding, acceptance, and love, one can find wholeness and clarity, as another person helps them to reassemble their fragmented identity in a way that makes sense and feels complete.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of partnership in personal growth.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.
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