Toni Morrison Quote

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.. So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.


Quoted in the New York Times (August 26, 1987)


I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people...

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people...

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people...

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people...