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Toni MorrisonThe beloved author known to be the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize, died on Monday, August 5th at the age of 88 years. What made Morrison so unique, in addition to his way with words and the ability to order the audience was his trip: the authorhad almost 40 years When she published her first book,The more Bluest EyeIn 1970 and she did it by juggling a career in the publication and lifting of children.

Although Morrison's story tragically reached his end is the author herself who said who said, "We die. It may be the meaning of life. But we make the language . It's the measure of our life. "

So, in honor of his many verbal and written contributions in the world, here are some of the best Toni Morrisonestimate And amateurs she left us.

1. On oneself

"I'm not entangled to shape my job based on the views of others on how I should have done."

-Salon Interview, 1998

2. On errors

"Correct what you can; learn from what you can not."

-God helps the child, 2015

3. On the initiative

"If there is a book you want to read, but it has not been written yet, then you have to write it."

-Twitter, 2013

4. On love

"Do not you think I fell for you, or I fell on you. I did not fall in love, I got up."

-Jazz, 1992

5. On charges

"You want to fly, you have to give up the **** that weighs you."

-Salomon song, 1977

6. On hurting

"The pain was greedy; he asked his full attention."

-Suula, 1973

7. On emotions

"I want to feel what I feel. What is mine. Even if it's not happiness, all that means. Because you are all you have."

-The GuardianMaintenance, 2012

8. On anger

"Anger ... It's a paralyzing emotion ... You can not do anything. People think it's an interesting feeling, passionate and flammable - I do not think it's none of it - C ' Is defenseless ... it's the lack of control - I have no use for that anything. "

-CBS radio maintenance, 1987

9. On politics in art

"I do not think the real artists have never been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular or insensitive situation, but they were political, because that's what an artist is a politician."

-Black annual creation, 1974

10. Co-dependence

"You can not possess a human being. You can not lose what you do not have. Suppose you have it. Could you really love someone who was absolutely no one without you? You really want someone One like that? Someone who falls? Separately when you go out the door? You're not, is not it? And do not he do it either. You turn all your life. All your your Life, your daughter. And if that means so little for you that you can just give it, put it back to him, so why should it mean more for him? he can not attach yourself to your value that you do not You value. "

-Salomon song, 1977

11. In power

"When you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before thinking."

-Sarah Lawrence College College, 1988

12. On the hate speech

"Oppressive language is more than representing violence; it is violence; is more than representing the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

-Nobel price reading, 1993

13. We write

"Writers-Journalists, Essayers, Bloggers, Poets, Playwrights - Can disrupt social oppression that works like a coma on the population, a despot coma calls peace, and they dry the blood flow of the war. The hawks and profiteers get shurry. "

-Burn this book, 2009

14. Freedom

"To go to a place where you could love everything you chose - no permission for desire - well nowthis was freedom. "

-Beloved, 1987

15. To death

"Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is that you can not know in advance."

-Home, 2012

And for greater readings on the art of aging graciously, like the Morrison Aye, here is the40 Best Books on Aging.