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Serious Quotes by Toni Morrison
- The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,…
- 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,…
- Laughter is more serious than tears.
- Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
- Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
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