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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
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Novelist
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
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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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Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
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We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
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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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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.
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What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence it is violence does more than represent the limits of knowledge it limits knowledge.
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Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
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Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.
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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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If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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