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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.
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Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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