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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
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
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Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.
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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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A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Hospitality is gold in this City you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
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Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.
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