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From Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness.' in The Guardian:

"On the rare occasions Toni Morrison chooses to focus on criticism, it is this she comes back to: that before her work even "gets out the gate" it has already been taken as representative – of her race, of her gender – so it becomes less a novel than a sociopolitical statement. Morrison is fine with sociopolitical readings of her work, but the artist in her rebels against it being the only reading, particularly when her novels are held up against some preconceived notion of what, as a black woman, she "should" be writing about."