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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle 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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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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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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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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