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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
Audiobook Narrator
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Ohio
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
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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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You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
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The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s it's choosing the ones you want.
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of chosen-ness and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.
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You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.
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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.
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