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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Novelist
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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