Toni Morrison

I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question…

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form…

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in…

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance…

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women…

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think…

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

I like marriage. The idea…

It’s been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it’s about…

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph…

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to…

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange…

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she…

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair…

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body…