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I like marriage. The idea.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
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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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An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
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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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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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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
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Word-work is sublime... because it is generative it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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