Books quotes

Song of Solomon

Name: Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison

1977

A white feather floats above a shallow hand-shaped ceramic dish against a pale blue background. — Original artwork

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Toni Morrison

A pearl necklace drapes across a gray feather beside a dried sprig on a sunlit windowsill. — Original artwork

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

A small figure holding an amber lantern beneath a large horned shadow on a dark indigo wall. — Original artwork

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Toni Morrison