Toni Morrison | women
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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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison | women
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.
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Toni Morrison | religion
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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Toni Morrison | power
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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Toni Morrison | nature
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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Toni Morrison | money
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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