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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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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?
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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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Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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Hospitality is gold in this City you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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All important things are hard.
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Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured
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Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
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If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
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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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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.
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It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.
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Not knowing it was hard knowing it was harder
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