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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

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. – 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

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I dont think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. Its perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. – Toni Morrison

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The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. – Jon Meacham

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. – Wendell Phillips

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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Power has to be insecure to be responsive. – Ralph Nader

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. – Dr. Allan Fromme

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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. – Marianne Williamson

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. – Arthur Rimbaud

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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