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Being able to laugh got me through.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
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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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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.
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The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
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[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
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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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Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
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It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
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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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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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Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
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