I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access…

Toni Morrison
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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. ✨ Disagree with me - but not because I'm a black woman by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.
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