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 MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You are your best thing.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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