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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Toni Morrison
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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.
Toni Morrison
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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.
Toni Morrison
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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.
Toni Morrison
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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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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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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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