Quote by Toni Morrison
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrou

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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison

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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. – Toni Morrison

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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. – Louise Bogan

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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. – Bela Lugosi

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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. – Audre Lorde

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Theres something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like womens backs. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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