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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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"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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"Some things you forget. Other things you never do"
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"Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be"
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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives"
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"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it"
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"You are your best thing"
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"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate"
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"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all"
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"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another"
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"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined"
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"You wanna fly, you got to give up the thing that weighs you down"
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