"Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening."

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Source : "Group Targets Black Authors' Books; Toni Morrison's Novel Deemed 'Smut' by Parent; Acclaimed Memoir 'Black Boy' Also is Under Fire" by Valerie Olander, The Detroit News, January 24, 2007.

Judith Krug

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“When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others”

Source : Jane Nelsen (1986). “Understanding: Eliminating Stress and Dissatisfaction in Life and Relationships”, Empowering People Books Tapes
“The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.”
“The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.”
“What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.79, Gibbs Smith
“The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.”

Source : "New Again: Tom Brady". Interview with Matthew McConaughey, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.
“The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.”
“When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.”

Source : "George Steinbrenner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 13, 2010.
“I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.”

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