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 MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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