Toni Morrison

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

I don't like to get in front of people.