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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.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
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Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.
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Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
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...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.
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I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
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Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.
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Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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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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When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
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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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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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He said, 'Always. Always.
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Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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