# Quote — Toni Morrison, Beloved

> Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers — not the defined.

- Author: [Toni Morrison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison.md)
- Book: [Beloved](https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/beloved.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison#Beloved_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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