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The worst of all possible things that could happen would be to lose that language [that black people love so much]. There are certain things I cannot say without recourse to my language. It’s terrible to think that a child with five different present tenses comes to school to be faced with those books that are less than his own language. And then to be told things about his language, which is him, that are sometimes permanently damaging… This is a really cruel fallout of racism. I know the Standard English. I want to use it to help restore the other language, the lingua franca.

1. He ø runnin. Standard American English (SAE )= He is running.

2. He be runnin. SAE = He is usually running or He will/would be running.

3. He be steady runnin. SAE = He is usually running in an intensive, sustained manner, or He will/would be running in an intensive, sustained manner.

4. He(’s) been/bin runnin. SAE He has been running–at some earlier point, but probably not now.
Other examples: I been knowing her. SAE = I have known her.
About eleven o’clock he been eating. SAE = … he was eating.

5. He BEEN/BIN runnin’. SAE = He has been running for a long time, and still is.
-This is a use of the African American English (AAE) stressed been/remote BIN.

 My mother Toni Morrison on AAVE (via howtobeterrell)

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Reblogged from dirtydreamnumbertwo
“ If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison  (via dirtydreamnumbertwo)

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eternallybeautifullyblack: divalocity: It doesn’t get any better than this!! Greatness Right Here!! sheplaysformyteam: [Daily photo] From left, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison and Angela Davis share a laugh during a dinner event with honors students at Hillcrest Hall. Morrison, an American novelist, editor and professor, is the guest of honor at tonight’s Sheer Good Fortune, a special event that was coordinated by Giovanni. Photo by Jim Stroup. Virginia Tech Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, and Anglela Davis all together?  There it is!  There is no reason to even continue this blog.  I could never top this!

eternallybeautifullyblack:

divalocity:

It doesn’t get any better than this!! Greatness Right Here!!

sheplaysformyteam:

[Daily photo] From left, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison and Angela Davis share a laugh during a dinner event with honors students at Hillcrest Hall. Morrison, an American novelist, editor and professor, is the guest of honor at tonight’s Sheer Good Fortune, a special event that was coordinated by Giovanni. Photo by Jim Stroup.

Virginia Tech

Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, and Anglela Davis all together?  There it is!  There is no reason to even continue this blog.  I could never top this!

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Reblogged from queerblackandproud
“ If there were no black people here in this country, it would have been Balkanized. The immigrants would have torn each other’s throats out, as they have done everywhere else. But in becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me—it’s nothing else but color. Wherever they were from, they would stand together. They could all say, “I am not that.” So in that sense, becoming an American is based on an attitude: an exclusion of me. It wasn’t negative to them—it was unifying. When they got off the boat, the second word they learned was “nigger.” Ask them—I grew up with them. I remember in the fifth grade a smart little boy who had just arrived and didn’t speak any English. He sat next to me. I read well, and I taught him to read just by doing it. I remember the moment he found out that I was black—a nigger. It took him six months; he was told. And that’s the moment when he belonged, that was his entrance.Every immigrant knew he would not come at the very bottom. He had to come above at least one group—and that was us. Toni Morrison in The Pain of Being Black (via queerblackandproud)

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Reblogged from explore-blog
“ I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it’s harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It’s the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It’s usually junk. Either it’s junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas.

Toni Morrison on pop culture, in a fantastic interview on love, loss and modernity. (via explore-blog)

s series of things breaking down or apart leave me seeking nourishment. she’s right - i have been eating excessive amounts of junk, mostly dairy, which will fuck you up, lactose intolerant or not, and watching junk tv dramas that neither inspire or educate, and playing the junk self-hate talk over and over in my mind.

i look forward to new context. a five hour car ride with a woman who is a complete stranger to me but a good friend to my good friend. whenever we reach the adirondacks, i’ll go analog. me, the k1000 and rolls of film, the notebook and pen. before the ceremony, i hope i get to take a walk. i hope two really dark, starry skies will be the catalyst for sounder sleep and good dreams. i’ll be amongst many familiar faces but, besides the bride, there won’t be a friend in the bunch. what kinds of new conversation can i create over two days? i cannot wait to smell that air, listen to the nights, take in the stories and offer one and make meaning. 

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I can especially relate to the junk ideas, it’s one of the ways to shut down thought without seeming to.

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Reblogged from fuckyeahwritersquotesandwisdom
“ Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Toni Morrison, Beloved (via fuckyeahwritersquotesandwisdom)

Always.

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