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  1. As fleet and bright as a lodestar, he wheeled towards Guitar and it did not matter which one of them would give up his ghost in the killing arms of his brother. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

  2. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. In this ambiguous ending, the novel concludes with an image of flight. Milkman and Guitar both appear to fly at the end, and yet readers don’t know which one of them lives or dies.

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    • "If You Surrender To The Air, You Can Ride It" — Toni Morrison. The first quote that appears on a card in Homecoming is attributed to Morrison along with the words "Howard University 1953," which recognizes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's HBCU alma mater.
    • "To Me We Are The Most Beautiful Creatures In The Whole World, Black People. And I Mean That In Every Sense." — Nina Simone. The quote that you hear legendary jazz singer/pianist Nina Simone recite in Homecoming has circulated widely in the video from above, but it's not clear where it originated.
    • "Education Must Not Simply Teach Work — It Must Teach Life" —W.E.B. DuBois. The civil rights activist graduated from the HBCU Fisk University, before going on to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
    • "Our Mothers And Grandmothers... Moving To Music Not Yet Written" — Alice Walker. Alice Walker, who graduated from Spelman College in 1965, wrote these words in a 1983 collection of prose called In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.
  3. Aug 5, 2019 · People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride..." - Toni Morrison quotes from BrainyQuote.com.

  4. Aug 7, 2019 · If you surrender to the air, you could ride it,” the final words from her 1977 novel “Song of Solomon.”

  5. No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. — Toni Morrison. Tags: white, black, moment, you.

  6. Jun 26, 2024 · “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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