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.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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