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Toni Morrison

Born: February 18, 1931

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist, writer

Biography: Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005.

Toni Morrison

“Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Beloved (1987)
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“I see the dark face that is going to smile at me it is my dark face that is going to smile at me the iron circle is around our neck she does not have sharp earrings in her ears or a round basket she goes in the water with my face”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Beloved (1987)
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“I am not dead I sit the sun closes my eyes when I open them I see the face I lost Sethe's is the face that left me Sethe sees me see her and I see the smile her smiling face is the place for me it is the face I lost she is my face smiling at me doing it at last a hot thing now we can join”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Beloved (1987)
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“Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Beloved (1987)
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“Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? Although she has claim, she is not claimed.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Beloved (1987)
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Toni Morrison

“This is not a story to pass on.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Beloved (1987)
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“Born lost. Take over the world and still lost.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Paradise (1997)
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“The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Paradise (1997)
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“Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Paradise (1997)
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“Nothing like other folks' sin for distraction.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Paradise (1997)
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“Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Paradise (1997)
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Toni Morrison

“I believe that one of the principle ways in which we acquire, hold, and digest information, is via narrative — so I hope you will understand when the remarks I make begin with the first sentence of our childhood — that we all remember — the phrase: Once upon a time.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
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“Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference — the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
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“Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
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