To know stuff is a bad thing

“To know stuff is a bad thing,” she told Lebowitz. “It has consequences, and the consequences are death.”

In response to the banning of her novel, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison helped launch the Free Speech Leadership Council. Of literacy, she said: "[it is] the route out of any oppression, any limitation."

Here is a conversation between Morrison and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC).

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