Toni Morrison Quotes About Babies

Quotes about: Babies

• I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Writing, Way

• In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Play, Differences

• Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Son, Race

• When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Needs, Gone

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Hurt, Funny Things

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Income, Done

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house. [...] A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Baby, Children

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