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People Quotes by Toni Morrison
- What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say…
- What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
- All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
- All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
- American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
- Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
- I don't do the things other people call "play."
- If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very,…
- My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
- 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…
- A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
- I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
- For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
- There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
- Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long,…
- Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets…
- Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction…
- How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never…
- Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I…
- There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle