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Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Librettist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Lorain
Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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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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He said, 'Always. Always.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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I thought the whole world was like Lorain.
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For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
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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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If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.
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