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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
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Literature
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Sociology
Tolerance
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
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There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
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Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.
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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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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.
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Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
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I sang O Holy Night in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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