Shani

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
― Maya Angelou

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“He wants to put his story next to hers.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved