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 MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You are your own stories.
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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 want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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