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I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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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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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
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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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We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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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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My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.
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Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
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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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What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
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