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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
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A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy
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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
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Much handled things are always soft(27).
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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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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?
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For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
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Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
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What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
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Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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