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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. "
Toni Morrison
Handle
Done
Ready
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" For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. "
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" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "
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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. "
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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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" Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. "
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" Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. "
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" If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. "
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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. "
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" Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I like marriage. The idea. "
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" I get angry about things, then go on and work. "
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Angry
" 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. "
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Self
" If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. "
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You
Write
" It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. "
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Will
Paradise
" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "
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Other
Work
Views
" You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. "
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Child
Children
Community
" 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. "
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Money
People
" If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. "
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You
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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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" 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. "
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Children
Black
Words
" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. "
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Dream
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" When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. "
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Pain
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Guns
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" Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. "
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" 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. "
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