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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
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford
Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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