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The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison

Time

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

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.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Toni Morrison

Difference