"Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else."

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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

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

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"If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!"

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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."

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"The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting."

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"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."

Alvin Ailey, American Dancer

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"You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to you what it feels like to be black when I don't understand it and don't want to and spend all my time trying to forget it? I don't want to hate anybody - but now maybe, I can't love anybody either - are we friends? Can we really be friends?"

James Baldwin, American Novelist

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"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?"

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"If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!"

"It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president."

"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."

"The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting."

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"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."

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"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."

"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."

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"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."