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
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- You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
- Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
- At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
- There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
- Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.