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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

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. – Toni Morrison

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Women
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Toni Morrison
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Womens rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. – Toni Morrison

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Equality
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Toni Morrison
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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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Sisters
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Toni Morrison
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. – Franklin Thomas

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Black History

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Black History

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

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Black History

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

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