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Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
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
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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 don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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