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Toni Morrison

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist, writer

Biography: Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005.

Toni Morrison

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

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

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“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”

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“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”

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

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

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“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.”

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“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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“I like marriage. The idea.”

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“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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