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Quote by Toni Morrison
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

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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Money
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Toni Morrison
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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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Toni Morrison
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

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Black History

Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. – Author Unknown

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Black History

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. – William Hazlitt

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Black History

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I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. – Denise Morrison

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Leadership

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. – John Cheever

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Perfection

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. – Alex Campbell

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strength

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. – Robin Williams

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Change