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 MORRISONHe can’t value you more than you value yourself.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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