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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.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Toni Morrison

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.

Toni Morrison

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Toni Morrison

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Toni Morrison

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.

Toni Morrison

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

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