Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
"Black Matters" in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.
The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
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