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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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. "

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

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

" Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. "

" I like marriage. The idea. "

Toni Morrison

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

Toni Morrison

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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. "

Toni Morrison

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" 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 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. "

" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "