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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
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the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
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Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.
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Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
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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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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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