Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.”

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”

“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.”

“There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.”

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