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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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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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All important things are hard.
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Much handled things are always soft(27).
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Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
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I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
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If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.
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Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.
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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
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There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard you'll do what's honest, not what pays
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
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Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, goodbye would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet. So long, she murmured from the far side of the trees.
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The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.
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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 formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
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