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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
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I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
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...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.
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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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Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.
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Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
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I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
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Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
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The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
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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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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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I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.
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