I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants…

Toni Morrison
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I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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