“Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.”

— Judith Krug

Referring to people seeking to prevent children in public schools from reading books allegedly containing sexually inappropriate material.
" Group Targets Black Authors' Books; Toni Morrison's Novel Deemed 'Smut' by Parent; Acclaimed Memoir 'Black Boy' Also is Under Fire http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070124/METRO04/701240390/1037/ENT05" by Valerie Olander, The Detroit News (January 24, 2007)

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“Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.”

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