#on

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#always #annoyed #bear #black #brunt

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#any #anything #doing #drunk #full

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#destroy #faces #force #kind #loving

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women. ↗

— Philip Morrison

#conquest #did #economies #homes #hopes

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#broken #family #female #head #house

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#audiences #been #england #era #me

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#because #black #constant #dread #everywhere

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #city #concern #consequence #does

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. ↗

— Van Morrison

#charles #first #imagination #live #music