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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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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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I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.
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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
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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 boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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