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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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" 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. "

Toni Morrison

Mind

Friendship

Good

" 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. "

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

Toni Morrison

Nothing

Why

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I like marriage. The idea. "

Toni Morrison

Idea

Funny

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

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

" 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. "

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