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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
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
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Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.
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I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
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The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of chosen-ness and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
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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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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.
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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
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I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.
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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
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Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.
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You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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