"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
-Toni Morrison
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.“
-Toni Morrison
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
-Toni Morrison
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"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
-Toni Morrison
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"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't 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."
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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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