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Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
Audiobook Narrator
Librettist
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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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Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
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The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
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I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.
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The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
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What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
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I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.
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