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What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
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
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
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Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.
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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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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s it's choosing the ones you want.
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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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