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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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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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Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
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We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.
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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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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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Word-work is sublime... because it is generative it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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