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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

21 " Say it, please, she urged. Please. And hurry. Hurry. I've got things to do. "

― Toni Morrison , Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

22 " Don't mistake the fathers' thanks," Fairy had warned her. "Men scared of us, always will be. To them we're death's handmaiden standing as between them and the children their wives carry." During those times, Fairy said, the midwife is the interference, the one giving orders, on whose secret skill so much depended, and the dependency irritated them. Especially here in this place where they had come to multiply in peace. "

― Toni Morrison , Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

23 " It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227) "

― Toni Morrison , Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

24 " are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself "

― Toni Morrison , Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

25 " Here freedom was not entertainment, like a carnival or a hoedown that you can count on once a year. Nor was it the table droppings from the entitled. Here freedom was a test administered by the natural world that a man had to take for himself every day. And if he passed enough tests long enough, he was king. "

― Toni Morrison , Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)