Contact
Privacy
Book: God Help the Child
Quotes of Book: God Help the Child
TOP TAGS :qualialovergender-based-discriminationabstractionexpressions-of-emotionemploymentdiscoveriesmother

  1. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    Her color is a cross she will always carry.
    book-quote

  2. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    How can I take crime shows seriously where the female detectives track killers in Louboutin heels?
    book-quote

  3. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.
    book-quote

  4. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    Things got better but I still had to be careful. Very careful in how I raised her. I had to be strict, very strict. Lula Ann needed to learn how to behave, how to keep her head down and not to make trouble. I don't care how many times she changes her name. Her color is a cross she will always carry. But it's not my fault. It's not my fault. It's not my fault. It's not. Bride I'm scared.
    book-quote

  5. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.
    book-quoteslavery-and-human-traffickingslavery-in-the-united-states

  6. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.
    book-quote

  7. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true {and how do you know}? 2. What problem do you have?
    book-quotefamilyrituals

  8. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.
    book-quoterace-and-racism-in-americablackness

  9. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.
    book-quote

  10. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    A child. New life. Immune to evil or illness, protected from kidnap, beatings, rape, racism, insult, hurt, self-loathing, abandonment. Error-free. All goodness. Minus wrath. So they believe.
    book-quote

  11. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    They will blow it, she thought. Each will cling to a sad little story of hurt and sorrow-some long-ago trouble and pain life dumped on their pure and innocent selves. And each one will rewrite that story forever, knowing the plot, guessing the theme, inventing its meaning and dismissing its origin.
    book-quote

  12. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.
    book-quote
Categories