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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 Morrison

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
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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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
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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Concept Enemy Men World
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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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Dance Engagement Equality Open Minded Peace Thinking

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.

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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.

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