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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."
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"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."
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"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."
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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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"The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist presumption. It is only when that presumption is questioned that a fine analysis of ancestry is invoked. Frederick Douglass was an ordinary nigger while working the fields. But as a famed abolitionist, it was often said that his genius must derive from his white half."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
Racism
"There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond."
Magic
"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know."
Gratitude
"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"
Thought
"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."
Goal
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
Actor
"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
Health
"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."
Acting
"I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?"
People
"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."
War
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