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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I d

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

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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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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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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. – Henry Rollins

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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is The X Factor. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. – Iain Duncan Smith

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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? – Ayn Rand

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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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We cant equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs. – Jimmy Carter

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I never thought a role model should be negative. – Michael Jordan

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