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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. ✨ Toni Morrison (2014). Beloved, Random House
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ✨ FaceBook post byToni Morrison from Jun 23, 2011
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

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