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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
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Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.
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If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
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The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.
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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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All important things are hard.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence it is violence does more than represent the limits of knowledge it limits knowledge.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.
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