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- Birth nameChloe Ardelia Wofford
- Height5′ 5¾″ (1.67 m)
- Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Song of Solomon, Beloved (1998) and American Experience (1987). She was married to Harold Morrison. She died on August 5, 2019 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseHarold Morrison(1957 - 1964) (divorced, 2 children)
- The first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 29 May 2012.
- Was a graduate of Howard and Cornell universities.
- Daughter of Ramah (Willis), from Greenville, Alabama, and George Wofford, from Cartersville, Georgia, and granddaughter of a slave.
- Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
- On personal power: A grown woman did not need safety or its dreams. She was the safety she longed for.
- On love: Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- On mothering: Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
- On mothering: A daughter is a woman that cares about where she came from and takes care of them that took care of her.
- On truth: Not knowing was hard; knowing was harder.
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