If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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Toni Morrison
American novelist who wrote Beloved (1987), Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993; lived 1931–2019.
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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.