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Something that is loved is never lost.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Librettist
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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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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
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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 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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Much handled things are always soft(27).
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This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
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There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
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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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It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.
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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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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
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