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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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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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The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
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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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The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
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Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
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Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on — can you hear me? Pass it on!
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Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
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All important things are hard.
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
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I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.
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He said, 'Always. Always.
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