Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISONRacism 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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