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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I like marriage. The idea. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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