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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.
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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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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.
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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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The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
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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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Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.
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I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence it is violence does more than represent the limits of knowledge it limits knowledge.
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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective they are that.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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