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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

Other quotes by Toni Morrison

I dont think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless theyre black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. Thats what were upset about. – Toni Morrison

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Money
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Toni Morrison
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Its been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because its about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. – Toni Morrison

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Religion
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. – 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

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. – W.E.B. DuBois

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Black History

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. – Rosa Parks

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Black History

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What made womens labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. – Clara Zetkin

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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us. – Pat Robertson

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Peace

I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. – Frantz Fanon

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Fanaticism