Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep interconnectedness and love among individuals.
In this quote, Toni Morrison highlights the profound bond and unity that can exist between people. By using familial terms, she emphasizes the idea that the connection goes beyond mere friendship or companionship; it signifies that we are all part of one another's identities and experiences, suggesting that love and relationship transcend conventional boundaries.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a family gathering to emphasize the importance of love and connection.
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.
And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
Maybe youβve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.
I believe in a world of opposites and thatβs why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
What I do on court is great, but what really matters is what happens off court, the people who you affect.
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