American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
Toni MorrisonNo gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
Toni MorrisonBooks ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
Toni MorrisonBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni MorrisonMy metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.
Toni Morrison