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

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.
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Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
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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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Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
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Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
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Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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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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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective they are that.
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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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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