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God Help the Child QUOTES

God Help the Child QUOTES

1 " 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? "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

2 " In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

3 " If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

4 " When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

5 " What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

6 " I don’t think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

7 " Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

8 " 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. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

9 " 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. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

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

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

11 " I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

12 " 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. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

13 " 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. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

14 " 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. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

15 " 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. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

16 " How can I take crime shows seriously where the female detectives track killers in Louboutin heels? "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

17 " Her color is a cross she will always carry. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

18 " You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

19 " No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity. "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child

20 " لا أظنّ أنّ كثيرًا من الناس يقدّرون الصمت أو يدركون أنّه قريب للموسيقى بقدرما يمكنهم تخيّله "

― Toni Morrison , God Help the Child