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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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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. – Toni Morrison

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Nature
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I dont think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless theyre black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. Thats what were upset about. – Toni Morrison

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Money
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. – Paul Cezanne

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. – John Ruskin

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Art

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. – Goldwin Smith

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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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