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 MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All important things are hard.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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