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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Librettist
Novelist
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.
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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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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
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Not knowing it was hard knowing it was harder
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Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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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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Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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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.
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Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.
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The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
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I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.
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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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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
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