The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison
I dont think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. Its perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. – Toni Morrison
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I dont 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. – Toni Morrison