Quote by Toni Morrison
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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I never thought a role model should be negative. – Michael Jordan

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