American - Novelist | February 18, 1931 -
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni Morrison
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I like marriage. The idea.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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