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I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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I think we've always been better live. ↗

— Benmont Tench

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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#could #ride #surrendered #you

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#country #else #everybody #everybody else #means

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anybody #black #cares #i #money

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#done #entangled #how #i #other

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#difference #make #make a difference #other #something

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#his #materialize #order #public #vanished

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me