There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race — scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct… it has a social function, racism.
— Toni Morrison Contemporary

Beloved, Nobel laureate

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Interview with The Telegraph

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2015

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Controversial

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