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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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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.
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s it's choosing the ones you want.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
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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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The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
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