About Toni Morrison

American novelist and Nobel laureate, author of Beloved. (1931-2019)

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More from Toni Morrison

• If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Speech to the Ohio Arts Council (1981)
• Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.Beloved (1987)
• Definitions belonged to the definers, not the defined.Beloved (1987)

More quotes on communication

• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.Ronald Reagan
• When they go low, we go high.Michelle Obama
• Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.Winston Churchill
• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.Nelson Mandela
• To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.Frederick Douglass

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