Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 18. Februar 1931 |
Geburtsort | Lorain, Ohio, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (geboren als Chloe Ardelia Wofford; 18. Februar 1931 - 5. August 2019), bekannt als Toni Morrison, war eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Ihr erster Roman, The Bluest Eye, wurde 1970 veröffentlicht. Das von der Kritik hochgelobte Song of Solomon (1977) brachte ihr nationale Aufmerksamkeit und gewann den National Book Critics Circle Award. Im Jahr 1988 erhielt Morrison den Pulitzer-Preis für Beloved (1987); 1993 wurde ihr der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen. |
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
I like marriage. The idea.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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.
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.
