#po

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 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

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

#because #been #intellectual #mentioned #paradise

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#brothers #contempt #difficulties #exposed #going

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#being a leader #leader #responsibility #somebody #take

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#even #existed #fascinating #figure #historical

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#became #days #get #long #long time

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. ↗

— Van Morrison

#being #being famous #complete #disappointing #drag

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. ↗

— Van Morrison

#attention #commercial #contemporary #i #me

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#get #hit #just #need #over