American - Novelist | February 18, 1931 -
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
Toni Morrison
AmericanWhiteCountryMeansElse
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
LoveLove IsThin
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
EndSomeoneYouDownOwnGoing
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
ChildrenPeopleEarthScorned
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
PeopleBelieveBlackWhiteCountry
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.
PowerSelfTestStrangeAbility
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
LeaderResponsibilityTakeBeing
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.
WorkWomenChildrenWordsToughTwo
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.
WomenEqualityMeYouPersonalTwo
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.
MoneyPeopleRichTake For Granted
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
WordsPainSameNo Words
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.
LifeBeautyWorldEnoughRemember
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