Toni Morrison, Jazz Flashcards
“Bold unsmiling…”
“Bold unsmiling girls staring from the mantelpiece”
“The girls memory…”
“The girls memory is a sickness in the house - everywhere and no where”
P28
“Underneath the good times and the easy money…”
“Underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets, and nothing was safe - not even the dead”
P9
“The women, the men…”
“The women, the men, the postbox (but no high school)… the bootleg houses (but no bank)”
P10
“Every club, organisation, group…”
“Every club, organisation, group, order, union, society, brotherhood, sisterhood, or association imaginable”
“The smart ones say so…”
“The smart ones say so… here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff”
“Forget that…”
“Forget that, history is over”
“Sth…”
“Sth, I know that woman”
P1
“Nothing on his mind but her…”
“Nothing on his mind but her. Won’t work. Can’t sleep. Grieves all day, all night”
“You could say, ‘I was scared to death’…”
“You could say, ‘I was scared to death’, but you could never retrieve the fear”
- limitations of language
P29
