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 MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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