“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.”
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- Wikiquote: Toni Morrison
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Guitar to Milkman on why a male peacock can't fly much better than a chicken.
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Morrison, Toni. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Toni Morrison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
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