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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

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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. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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I think we've always been better live. ↗

— Benmont Tench

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

— Toni Morrison

#country #else #everybody #everybody else #means

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. ↗

— Lance Morrow

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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

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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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