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10 powerful Toni Morrison quotes to get you through the day – Metro US

10 powerful Toni Morrison quotes to get you through the day

Toni Morrison Quotes
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Here are 10 powerful and inspiring Toni Morrison quotes to keep you inspired and get you through the day.

Toni Morrison, the Pulitzer and Nobel-prize winning author who captured the hearts of many through her ability to document and capture the black American experience, has died. She was 88.

Morrison passed away Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, according to a spokesperson for the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf. Her cause of death has not been released.

In 1993, Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman to receive a Nobel literature. The Swedish Academy said her novels are “characterized by visionary force and poetic import” and “gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.

Toni Morrison books, novels list

Over Toni Morrison’s career, she wrote 11 novels including “Beloved,” and “The Bluest Eye,” and five children’s books including “The Big Box,” “Peeny Butter Fudge,” and “Please, Louise.”

Toni Morrison quotes

Click through the gallery for 10 powerful quotes by Toni Morrison.