If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
From Toni Morrison
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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.
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't 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.
I like marriage. The idea.
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
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