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"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game."

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About Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was an American novelist, editor, and professor whose work centers Black American life and history. She is best known for novels including Beloved, Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

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