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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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
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