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He said, 'Always. Always.
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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.
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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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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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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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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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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face you are me.
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When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.
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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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