#thing

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

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

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

Make a difference about something other than yourselves. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anything #anyway #character #i #just

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#handle #how #more #must #nothing

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

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. ↗

— Van Morrison

#everything #how #i #jazz #understood

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

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#although #anything #british #countries #disappears