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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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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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Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.
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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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