Toni Morrison Quotes

Knowing That There Was Such A Thing As Outdoors Bred In Us A Hunger For Property, For Ownership. The Firm Possession Of A Yard, A Porch, A Grape Arbor. Propertied Black People Spent All Their Energies, All Their Love, On Their Nests. Like Frenzied, Desperate Birds, They Overdecorated Everything; Fussed And Fidgeted Over Their Hard-won Homes; Canned, Jellied, And Preserved All Summer To Fill The Cupboards And Shelves; They Painted, Picked, And Poked At Every Corner Of Their Houses. And These Houses Loomed Like Hothouse Sunflowers Among The Rows Of Weeds That Were The Rented Houses.

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