"Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet."

-- Toni Morrison

#Mother Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Pain Quotes

“To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.”
“Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?”
“The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.”
“Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.”
“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.”
“I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”
“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis, David Peters Corbett (1994). “The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature”, p.183, Taylor & Francis
“When Iâ€™m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”

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