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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
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.
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Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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I like marriage. The idea.
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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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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.
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Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
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You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.
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Much handled things are always soft(27).
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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