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Toni Morrison Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 18, 1931

Topics

Black Because Still Constant Dread

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Life Best Me Looking Forward Believe

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

Life Change Friend Character People

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' And then there are the letters from adults who say, 'This is such a good book; why did you write it for teens?'

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Good Me Writing Book Thank You You

Don't try to be anybody else, because that's what I do. I do me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to please my pastor at church. I'm not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.

Anjelah Johnson

Me Mom Church Trying Try Impress

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Life Feel Own Making Characters Lot

Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I'd have to reengage with him.

Day Me Voice Person Street Talk

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Beginning Do The Right Thing People

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

Girl Men I Am Me Stupid Opinion

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Mother Problems Cooperation Question

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

Politics Me World Care Political

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!

God Talking Artist Bring Used Souls

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Art Childhood Birds Museum Nothing

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