Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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