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Toni Morrison
February 18, 1931 -
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

   

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

   

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

   

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

   

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

   

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.

   

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

   

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

   

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