Toni Morrison Quotes
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.
Toni Morrison, Author, Quoted in Brian Lanker, I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, 1989
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James was a Catholic King and did not like Protestants but positively detested Puritans. He made good his and “harried them out of the land” much to the benefit of the American colonies to which they immigrated and the detriment of England. Many of the immigrants to America came for the religious freedom, but in the early days, no sooner did they arrive and become the majority, than they began to discriminate against other religions.
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
