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My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Toni Morrison
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Nature
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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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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
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