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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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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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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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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
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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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Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.
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I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.
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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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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
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Not knowing it was hard knowing it was harder
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When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
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What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
Toni Morrison
Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
Toni Morrison
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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