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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
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What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
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Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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.
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I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.
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What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
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