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Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison

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

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove

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

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

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Toni Morrison

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

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994 edition), Univ. Press of Mississippi - ISBN: 9780878056927

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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.”

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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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“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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“Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.”

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“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: As quoted in Woman to Woman (1994) by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman

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“For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.”

- Toni Morrison

Source/Notes: Conversations with Toni Morrison (1994 edition), Univ. Press of Mississippi - ISBN: 9780878056927

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“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

- Toni Morrison

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