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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

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison

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power
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison

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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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The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. – June Jordan

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Black History

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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how. – Orison Swett Marden

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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. – Charles Eastman

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. – Jean Baudrillard

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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield

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