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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.
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 don't do the things other people call play.
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What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
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I sang O Holy Night in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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