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Jazz
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"Jazz" Quotes

A love triangle in 1920s Harlem leads to a shocking act of violence and its haunting aftermath.

Quotes

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Toni Morrison

love

You are my face; I am yours. You are my own.

Toni Morrison

love

I'm telling you, that's not the same as love. It's not the same as falling.

Toni Morrison

love

What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.

Toni Morrison

children

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? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door?

Toni Morrison

love

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you?

Toni Morrison

lifedepression

I'm not sure what I'm feeling. I'm not sure of anything. I don't know anything. I don't want to know anything.

Toni Morrison

uncertainty

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

Toni Morrison

life

You can't always count on a happy ending.

Toni Morrison

life

The main reason she had to leave was to avoid the people she loved.

Toni Morrison

lovechoices