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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Librettist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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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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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
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...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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