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Toni Morrison


American
February 18, 1931
Novelist
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I like marriage. The idea.


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


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Tags: You Could Air
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.


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


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Tags: Work About Get
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.


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Tags: About Than Make
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.


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


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Tags: Alone You Need
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.


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Tags: Get Where Back
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.


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Tags: War People Always
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.
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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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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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Tags: You Think I Think
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?
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Tags: You How Say
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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Tags: Me Who World
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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Tags: Time People Out
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.
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Tags: Work Women Who
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
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Tags: You About Out
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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Tags: Money People Just
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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Tags: Good You Me