“He said, 'Always. Always.”

“Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.”

“But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.[...]A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. ”

“Much handled things are always soft(27).”

“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.”