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"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"

"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."

"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."

"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."

"A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?"

"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."

"It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president."
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"I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that."

"I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility."

"I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now."

"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."

"It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place."

"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."
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