Toni Morrison
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I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' 'The way I want it?' 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' 'Mess it up how?' 'Forgot it.' 'Forgot?' 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

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