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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
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Word-work is sublime... because it is generative it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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He said, 'Always. Always.
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
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Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
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Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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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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Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
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Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.
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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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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
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I don't do the things other people call play.
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When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
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