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Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?

Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.
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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
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They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.
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Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.
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Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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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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