American Literature

Quotes & Thinkers in American Literature

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🇺🇸Toni Morrison

Literature

1931–2019

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

"I think fiction is the thing you invent to fit the shape of what you learned and nonfiction is the thing you invent to fit the shape of what you found or maybe even what you can’t run away from…"

"Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy, greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them, always hidden behind their own terror."

"The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever."

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🇺🇸Cinda Williams Chima

Literature

b. 1952

"Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground."

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."

"Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier."

"Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you."

"If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it."

"You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one."

"I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime."

"There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt."

"There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire."

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