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Quote by Toni Morrison
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a se

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison

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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. – 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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Women
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. – Madeleine LEngle

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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades – even if its now close to aesthetic kudzu. – Jerry Saltz

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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. – Emma Goldman

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What is the use of a house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

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Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if youre not healthy. You cant appreciate it. – Bryan Cranston

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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! – Maria Montessori

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