Inspirational
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio.
* She attended Howard University and Cornell University, where she studied English.
* After graduating, she taught at several universities, including Texas Southern University and Howard University.
* In 1965, she became a fiction editor at Random House.
* She published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.
* She went on to publish 11 more novels, including Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
* In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* She died on August 5, 2019, at the age of 88.
Morrison was a groundbreaking writer who explored the experiences of African Americans in the United States. Her work was praised for its beauty, power, and originality. She was a major force in American literature and culture, and her work continues to be read and studied today.
* She attended Howard University and Cornell University, where she studied English.
* After graduating, she taught at several universities, including Texas Southern University and Howard University.
* In 1965, she became a fiction editor at Random House.
* She published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.
* She went on to publish 11 more novels, including Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
* In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* She died on August 5, 2019, at the age of 88.
Morrison was a groundbreaking writer who explored the experiences of African Americans in the United States. Her work was praised for its beauty, power, and originality. She was a major force in American literature and culture, and her work continues to be read and studied today.
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Life
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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
Hope
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
Love
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if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
Writing
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Inspirational
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Love
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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Love
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Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
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