Toni Morrison
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it leaves, it has just as much of a deleterious effect on white people and possibly equal as it does black people.
I always knew that I had the moral high ground all my life.
I always thought those people who said I couldn't come in the drugstore and I had to sit in this funny place, I couldn't go in the park.
And I thought they knew that I knew that they were inferior to me.
And my parents always thought that.
But if the racist white person, I don't mean the person who is examining his consciousness and so on, doesn't understand that he or she is also a race, it's also constructed, it's also made, and it also has some kind of serviceability.
But when you take it away, I take your race away.
And there you are, all strung out.
And all you've got is your little self.
What are you without racism?
I mean, these are the questions.
Yes, the victim, how terrible it has been for black people.