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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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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 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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In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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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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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s it's choosing the ones you want.
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I sang O Holy Night in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
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You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
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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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Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.
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...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.
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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective they are that.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.
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Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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