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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Lipstick
Nightmare
Dream
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Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.
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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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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.
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No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.
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