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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

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
All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON

Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
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
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON

Country White
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON

Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISON

Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISON

Love One Liner
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISON

Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
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.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISON

Angry Work
Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISON

Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISON

Love Lover
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISON

Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing

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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