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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
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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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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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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If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
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If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
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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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