Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stup… - Toni Morrison

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Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.

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About Toni Morrison

Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

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Birth Name: Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Alternative Names: Chloe Anthony Wofford • Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison • Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
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Margaret Atwood Louise Erdrich Truman Capote Virginia Woolf Joyce Carol Oates

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