#us

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

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

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

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#comfort #help #i #i think #obviously

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

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

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

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. ↗

— Van Morrison

#change #musician #same #singer #stay

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#cards #leave #lose #must #order

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. ↗

— Van Morrison

#different #different places #line #makes #places