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Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a distinguished American novelist and essayist, celebrated for her profound exploration of African American life and culture. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for her novel "Beloved," which was later adapted into a film. more Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a distinguished American novelist and essayist, celebrated for her profound exploration of African American life and culture. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for her novel "Beloved," which was later adapted into a film. In 1993, Morrison became the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for her richly detailed characters and narrative techniques. "Song of Solomon" (1977) and "The Bluest Eye" (1970) are among her most influential works. Morrison also served as an editor at Random House, where she championed Black literature and authors. She was appointed the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University in 1989. less

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"We commit ourselves to language and community at the same time"
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"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in"
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"Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation"
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"If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem"
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"Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone"
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power"
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"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'"
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"Something that is loved is never lost"
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"The function of evil is to divide, separate"
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"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not"
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"The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend"
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"Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder"
Tags: Wisdom, Perseverance, Growth, Self-discovery, Life lessons
"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge"
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"You are not the work you do, you are the person you are"
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"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think"
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