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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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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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Nature
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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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Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. – Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, advice to all black youth, c.1967

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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. – William Faulkner

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Freedom is never given; it is won. – A. Philip Randolph

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As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: “The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, youre not going to want to keep it to yourself. Youre going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. – will.i.am

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