Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between…

Toni Morrison
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.255, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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