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I dont think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless theyre black

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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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I dont mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. – Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison
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Womens rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. – Toni Morrison

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Equality
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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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Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money. – Brandon Boyd

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem. – Robert H. Schuller

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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money. – Lily Tomlin

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If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what youre going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. – Russell Simmons

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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. – Felix Adler

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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. – George Herbert

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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: its a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. – Alain de Botton

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This love is silent. – T. S. Eliot

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