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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphen

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison

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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people. – Toni Morrison

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Education
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At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. – Toni Morrison

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Beauty
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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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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

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Black History

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. – Harriet Tubman, on her first escape from slavery, 1845

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Black History

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

Random Quotes

Its very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. – Johnny Mathis

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Morning

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. – Mahatma Gandhi

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relationship

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (“Bernard of Chartres used

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Miscellaneous

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. – Grazia Deledda

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Christmas