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 MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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