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Toni Morrison quotes

27 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Toni Morrison wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Page 2 of 2.

Except for World War II, nothing ever interfered with the celebration of National Suicide Day.

— The narrator · Toni Morrison, Sula (1973), chapter headed 1919

Maybe it was the bottom of heaven.

— The narrator · Toni Morrison, Sula (1973), opening section

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Recitatif quotes · 6 lines (1983)
Sula quotes · 5 lines (1973)

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