Logo
Quote by Toni Morrison
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country bet

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison

Other quotes by Toni Morrison

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

Category:
power
Author
Toni Morrison
Read Quote

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison

Category:
Nature
Author
Toni Morrison
Read Quote

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison

Category:
Sisters
Author
Toni Morrison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

In war there is no prize for runner-up. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
War

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. – William Tecumseh Sherman

Category:
War

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. – Karl Von Clausewitz

Category:
War

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. – Ernie Pyle

Category:
War

Random Quotes

If I dont get paid Im going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane. – Tommy Chong

Category:
Home

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. – Ernst Mayr

Category:
Friendship

For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. – Bible

Category:
Faith

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. – Floyd Abrams

Category:
Freedom