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.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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What a woman. What a life.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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