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 MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You are your best thing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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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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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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