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
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – 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. – Toni Morrison
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. – Toni Morrison