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Toni Morrison

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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do." Afterword by the Author(c)1993


— Toni Morrison


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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.


— Toni Morrison


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Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.


— Toni Morrison


#death

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.


— Toni Morrison


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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.


— Toni Morrison


#racism #racism

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.


— Toni Morrison


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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.


— Toni Morrison


#love

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.


— Toni Morrison


#death

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.


— Toni Morrison


#inspiration #inspirational

Love is divine only and difficult always.


— Toni Morrison


#love






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In 1993 Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In May 2006 The New York Times Book Review named Beloved the best American novel publiToni Morrisond in the previous twenty-five years. I have no idea what his real instincts are in terms of race.

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18 1931) is an American novelist editor and professor. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera Margaret Garner first performed in 2005.

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