When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONRacism 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All important things are hard.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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