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" Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. "

Toni Morrison

Black

People

City

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" The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. "

" I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. "

" I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. "

" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. "

" A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. "

" She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. "

" If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "

" We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. "

" There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. "

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Nothing

Why

" Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. "

" One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. "

" If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. "

" Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. "

" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "

" I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. "

" Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. "

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Personal

Equality

" I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. "

" I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. "

" Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. "

" If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. "