• We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

  Source: The Bluest Eye (2014) 138

  Toni Morrison
  American novelist, essayist, editor 1931-2019
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. recklessness
2. passion
3. leisure
4. thought
5. freedom

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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. by : Toni Morrison

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