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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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