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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
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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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.
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Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?
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Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.
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I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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?
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