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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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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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Hospitality is gold in this City you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
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Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
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Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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Not knowing it was hard knowing it was harder
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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 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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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