[PW] ? Toni Morrison & "It Takes a Village" (Quotation Query #645)

[Callum Finlayson]

She works for The Nation magazine, so you can probably contact her through them.


  Callum


>In The Yale Book of Quotations the earliest English-language evidence I give 
>for "it takes a village to raise a child" is dated 1989.  However, there are 
>several early references to Toni Morrison using that saying.  Can anyone point 
>me to any pre-1989 writing, speech, or interview in which Morrison used it?
>
>Also, can anyone help me ascertain an e-mail address for Morrison or her 
>associates?  I tried the e-mail address given at the Princeton University web 
>site, but it bounced back.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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