A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – 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
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
I was on the point of cutting the cord that suspended me between heaven and earth… and measured with my eye the vast space that separated me from the rest of the human race… I felt myself precipitated with a velocity that was checked by the sudden unfolding of my parachute. – André-Jacques Garnerin, 1797