I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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