23 quotes found
“Her passions were narrow but deep.”
“He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
“You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!”
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
“I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read.”
“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? So...”
“Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.”
“See? See what you can do? Never mind you cant tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this he...”
“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.”
“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out...”
“What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You've been laughing at us all your life. Corinthians...”
“He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.”
“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don'...”
“The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.”
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you d...”
“You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.”
“Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: ...”
“Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that much?""Love?" she asked. "Love?""Well, what are you taking care of their dogs for?""Do you know why...”
“Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
