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While children are being eroticized into adults, adults are being exoticized into eternal juvenilia. There is nothing more satisfying, more gratifying than true adulthood. The process of becoming one is not inevitable. Its achievement is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard-won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.
- toni morrison, commencement speech at wellesley, quoted by SAM DILLON, "Threats to Rights and Financial Barriers to Poor Are Cited at Graduations," New york times June 6, 2004