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Ladybird

Toni Morrison says you sort of struggle to do four good things...

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Sarah Dzida
Feb 06, 2025
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Originally written in August 2023

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“Ladybird” in British English and a “Ladybug” in American English; Photo by Noah Boyer on Unsplash

In 1998, an interviewer asks Toni Morrison: “What makes you really angry?” And Morrison (age 64) answers that she’s lost a lot of her anger at this point in her life. Rather, mostly what she just feels is melancholy.

“Meanin…

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