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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
Singing
Wouldn
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.
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Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.
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I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
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Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
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Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
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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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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
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