#people

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#behave #believe #black #country #jewish

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

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'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

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous. ↗

— Van Morrison

#before #famous #i #i am #ireland

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i #more #now #people #playing

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#anybody #business #communication #extreme #having

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#artists #cent #i #people #per

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#became #certainly #deeply #dolls #i