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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
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What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
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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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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.
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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.
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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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