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 MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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