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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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" I like marriage. The idea. "

" Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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