# Quote — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

> 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.

- Author: [Toni Morrison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison.md)
- Book: [Song of Solomon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/song-of-solomon.md)
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## More from this book

> Pretty woman, he thought. Pretty little black-skinned woman. Who wanted to kill for love, die for love. The pride, the conceit of these doormat women amazed him. They were always women who had been spoiled children. Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. They could not believe or accept the fact that they were unloved; they believed that the world itself was off balance when it appeared as though they were not loved. Why did they think they were so lovable? Why did they think their brand of love was better than, or even as good as, anybody else's? But they did. And they loved their love so much they would kill anybody who got in its way.

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

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

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