A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison
I dont think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless theyre black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. Thats what were upset about. – Toni Morrison
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison
Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. – Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & Worl