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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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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. – Toni Morrison

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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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