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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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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
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This word LOVE - discredited, clicheed - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.
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In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
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I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
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The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
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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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Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.
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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
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