Anger ... It's a paralyzing emotion ... You can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... It's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... And anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.'[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.].

— Toni Morrison
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