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  1. Happy Birthday to Toni Morrison. She gathered all these “when are you going to centralize the white gaze” ass asking journos.

  2. “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” -Toni Morrison Today would have been Toni’s 89th birthday Help me wish this literary icon a very Happy Birthday ❤️ Charcoal/pencil drawing

  3. Remembering the great Chloe Anthony Wofford, better known as on what would've been her 88th birthday today. "How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it."

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    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

  5. If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. 🙏🏼 ❤️

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  7. Today we celebrate the legacy of , born on this day in 1931, whose storytelling abilities transformed our culture and the literary world at large. Here is a video of Toni reading from a fiction project at a tribute event we dedicated to her timeless work.

  8. You were my song. My literary melody. You gave me the courage to tell my stories in my voice and not apologize for it. You squeezed my hand and looked me in the eye which made me believe you. Thank you. And Happy Birthday Ms. Morrison. Tell my Mama I said hi.

  9. "Fill in the blanks and they become yours." - winner who was born OTD in 1931

  10. // The New Black Film Collective Presents // Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2019) 9pm, Thu 5 Mar A preview screening of the anticipated documentary with an introduction and reading by Black GirlsBook Club. Tix:

  11. Happy birthday to literary legends and ZORA Canon authors and . Which of their works from the are you reading to celebrate? ✨

  12. in 1931, the late, great was born. On what would've been her 89th birthday, let us celebrate her immense contributions to literature and ensuring Black lives, voices, and stories mattered. She was right: there is no need for silence, no room for fear.

  13. On what would've been 's 89th birthday, today is the perfect day to watch the critically acclaimed documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. You can stream it on Hulu plus more options here:

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    “All water has a perfect memory.”

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  15. “More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, Love your heart. For this is the prize.”

  16. Happy Birthday, Ancestor Toni! Thank you for work that loves Black women so wholly, & insists that this will always be enough. Thank you for sacred texts that bless us through so much: rising in love, “circles of sorrow,” & the deep, liberating look within. 💜🙌🏿

  17. And I think the meaning of life is, “You are your own best thing.” That’s it. Happy birthday .

  18. Trading books with my dad. I gave him my copy of Beloved and he gave me his copy of Song of Solomon (it's a dog-eared copy cuz it's been around before I was born and I first read it more than 10 years ago).

  19. Birthday of the late great . Her is still the best: “At some point, I realized that there was a book I wanted to read, that nobody had written. I really wanted to read it, and the only way I could was to write it.”

  20. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” 💛🧡💚 IG @ widgetami

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