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I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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University Teacher
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Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
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My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)
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I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.
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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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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
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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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I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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