{"quotes":[{"text":"Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["black-women","jazz","toni-morrison","women"],"id":18230,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["beloved","heal","morrison","pain","toni-morrison"],"id":31888,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don’t bring me no whiteboy sass.” Hunter’s Hunter and Godlen Gray.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["black","jazz","man","manhood","men","sass","toni-morrison"],"id":108152,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?'' 'The way I want it?'' 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?'' 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.'' 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.'' 'Mess it up how?'' 'Forgot it.'' 'Forgot?'' 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["identity","toni-morrison"],"id":126357,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["beauty","black","dandelions","morrison","race","racism","toni-morrison"],"id":161029,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["laughter","toni-morrison","violet-trace"],"id":218710,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"It's gonna hurt, now,' said Amy. 'anything dead coming back to life hurts.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["beloved","death","life","toni-morrison"],"id":249627,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["beloved","hope","magic","miracle","miracles","toni-morrison","trust"],"id":267284,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["beloved","jesus","morrison","toni-morrison"],"id":307657,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I’m fifty and I don’t know nothing. What about it? Do I stay with him? I want to, I think. I want… well, I didn’t always… now I want. I want some fat in this life.”“Wake up. Fat or lean, you got just one. This is it.”“You don’t know either, do you?”“I know enough to know how to behave.”“Is that it? Is that all it is?”“Is that all what is?”“Oh shoot! Where the grown people? Is it us?”“Oh, Mama.” Alice Manfred blurted it out and then covered her mouth. Violet had the same thought: Mama. Mama? Is this where you got to and couldn’t do it no more? The place of shade without trees where you know you are not and never again will be loved by anybody who can choose to do it? Where everything is over but the talking? - Violet Trace and Alice Manfred.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["a-mother-s-love","growing-old","jazz","love","mama","mother","talking","toni-morrison","violet-trace"],"id":313770,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}