#in

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#confirm #especially #existences #films #i

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#cinema #death #fear #lies

I loved working with Bob Dylan. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#bob dylan #dylan #i #loved #working

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#confined #down #end #going #hold

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #city #complicity #enormous #none

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. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#familiar #familiarize #imagine #mystify #power

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#becoming #color #common #contempt #else

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #conflict #convinced #country #event

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

#acts #always #deficient #exclusion #i

I think we've always been better live. ↗

— Benmont Tench

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