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 MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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