Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.Toni Morrison
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
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(Love) is easily the most empty clich, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotionbecause hatred is involved in it, too.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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