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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
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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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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective they are that.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
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