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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

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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
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.
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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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I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
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Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.
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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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