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

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

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"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."

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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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"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."

"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."

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