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Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
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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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
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For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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