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 MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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