There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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