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The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
Toni Morrison
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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
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Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
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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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If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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