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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – 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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We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like were just kind of there now. – Miranda Lambert

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It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners. – Jim Elliot

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All issues are womens issues – and there are several that are just womens business. – Eddie Bernice Johnson

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