“I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. . …”

“I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. . . . Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”

— Toni Morrison

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