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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
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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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Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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This word LOVE - discredited, clicheed - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
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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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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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I sang O Holy Night in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
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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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He said, 'Always. Always.
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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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