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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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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.
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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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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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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
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A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence it is violence does more than represent the limits of knowledge it limits knowledge.
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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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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Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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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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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
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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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This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
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