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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. – Toni Morrison

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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. – Toni Morrison

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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. – Samuel Richardson

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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed. – Walter Russell

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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

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