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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
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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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Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.
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Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.
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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
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You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
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This word LOVE - discredited, clicheed - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.
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They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.
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If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
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All important things are hard.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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