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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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Lorain
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
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Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
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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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Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on — can you hear me? Pass it on!
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Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
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The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.
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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
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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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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
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