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 MORRISONThere is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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