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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
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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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Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
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Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.
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The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence it is violence does more than represent the limits of knowledge it limits knowledge.
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I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.
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I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
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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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