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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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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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[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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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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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.
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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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