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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Novelist
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Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.
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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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A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.
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We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.
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[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.
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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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I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
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Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.
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I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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