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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
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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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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
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Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.
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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
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The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
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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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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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