You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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 surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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