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Much handled things are always soft(27).
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that.
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My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
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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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A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy
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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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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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Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
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Not knowing it was hard knowing it was harder
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