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“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, very serious problem.”

— Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

“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, very serious problem.”

— Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

Toni Morrison Quote: “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, very serious problem.”

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1. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

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2. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”

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3. “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

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4. “Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.”

5. “There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”

6. “God is in the rain.”

7. “Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”

8. “No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”

9. “The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”

10. “Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”

11. “Never despair. Never surrender.”

12. “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

13. “Roses are red Violets are blue Everything’s possible Nothing is true.”

14. “It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.”

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15. “You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

16. “Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness.”

17. “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”

18. “So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.”

19. “Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

20. “The roots of the word ‘anarchy’ are ‘an archos,’ ‘no leaders,’ which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word ‘anarchy’ is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.”

21. “We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”

22. “The past can’t hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that’s not the real you. That’s not who you are inside.”

23. “None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with YOU. You’re locked up in here with ME.”

24. “I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.”

25. “Why do we argue? Life’s so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”

26. “Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious.”

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27. “There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There’s only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

28. “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

29. “Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it’s seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It’s taken me a long time to realize that.”

30. “Love your rage, not your cage.”

31. “I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”

32. “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”

33. “Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.”

34. “But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

35. “The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”

36. “There’s no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there’s a longer pause between relapses.”

37. “This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.”

38. “Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

39. “If you give me a typewriter and I’m having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry – that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn’t cost much to do that.”

40. “While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

41. “In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.”

42. “There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.”

43. “Don’t leave home without your sword – your intellect.”

44. “What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

45. “A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

46. “The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we’ll ever do.”

47. “Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”

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48. “Famously, there’s not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It’s not progressing toward anything, it’s a statement of outrage, however brilliant.”

49. “There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

50. “Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.”

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