Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISON
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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