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" I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. "

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" It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. "

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

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

" For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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" 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. "

" At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. "

" I like marriage. The idea. "

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

" I get angry about things, then go on and work. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. "

" No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. "

" 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? "

" Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. "

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

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

" 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. "