I don't think anybody cares about unwed... by Toni Morrison

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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.

- Toni Morrison

Other quotes by Toni Morrison

Pain Words

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

- Toni Morrison

Work People

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

- Toni Morrison

Money People

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.

- Toni Morrison

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.

- Toni Morrison

Children

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

- Toni Morrison

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

- Toni Morrison

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