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Quote by Toni Morrison
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country bet

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison

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

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Art
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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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power
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War
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War itself is the enemy of the human race. – Howard Zinn

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War

I want to start my own airplane business. Im going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know, where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time. – Gary Numan

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War

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? – Bianca Jagger

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War

After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. – Leon Panetta

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War

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No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obamas story. But since the Inauguration, weve seen only the presidents present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. – Dee Dee Myers

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Beauty without expression is boring. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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As the Nations primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. – Judy Biggert

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