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 MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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