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'Just one thing that I wanted to write about'

3 November 2008

'When I began, there was just one thing that I wanted to write about, which was the true devastation of racism on the most vulnerable, the most helpless unit in the society - a black female and a child. (On winning her Nobel) 'I felt representative,I felt American, I felt Ohioan,I felt blacker than ever. I felt more woman than ever.'

Toni Morrison in the Observer