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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American Novelist
Born: Feb 18, 1931
About Because Black Country People You
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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
Nothing Other Else Immigrant Color Contempt Becoming American Common Europe
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
Time Book Took No Time Written Badly Periods Read Insulting Reviewer Reviews Short Short Periods Really Painful Deeply
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. Toni Morrison
Education People Black Nothing City Economy Concern Policy Does Any Social Planning Social Policy Consequence
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. Toni Morrison
Religion Will Paradise Topic About Mentioned Studied Well Because Been Intellectual Which Unimportant Suggested
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
Me You Rights Women Equality Cause About Only Abstraction Also Affair Personal Just Us Two
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. Toni Morrison
Money Black Think Cares Unless About Morality Mothers Question Anybody Upset Poor
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. Toni Morrison
Me World Problems Single Sense Statesman Nelson Nelson Mandela Solving Guns Unbelievable His Truly Mandela Literal Who
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. Toni Morrison
Time People Job Long Long Time Young Holding Market Out Must Pens Schools Off Stop Being Energetic Puberty Young People Keep Streets Stretch
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. Toni Morrison
Myself Political Hatred Sister Difficulties Kids Born Brothers Never Contempt Were Going Exposed Level
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