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" 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? "
Toni Morrison
Sky
Say
Moon
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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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" 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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" A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. "
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" 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. "
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" I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. "
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" There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. "
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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. "
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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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" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. "
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" I like marriage. The idea. "
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" We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. "
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" I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. "
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" 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. "
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" Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. "
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" 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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" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close 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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" 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. "
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