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You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
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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Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
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I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
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