A Quote by Toni Morrison

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

Toni Morrison

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After American Applicable Ethnicity Make Means People Struggle Term Themselves White

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Toni Morrison
American - Novelist
February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'

Mona Eltahawy

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

Frank McCourt

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

Carlos Beruff

All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep.

Willard R. Espy

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Augustus William Hare

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Winston Churchill

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

Henry Winter

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

Frederick Lenz

I was Corinne Bailey. I added on Rae, my husband's name, when I got married. There's no hyphen. Stops it being posh!

Corinne Bailey Rae

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

Laurence J. Peter

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

Hasan Minhaj

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Martin Gardner

The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

Tim McCarver

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.

Chino XL

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