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

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" Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. "

" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. "

" In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. "

" 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 wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. "

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

" 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 would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. "

" 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. "

" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "

" My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. "

" 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. "

" You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? "

" There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black 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. "

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

" Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. "

" 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. "