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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?"
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
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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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"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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"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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"It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours."
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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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"In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely."
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"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."
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"I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be."
Father
"If I have enough money to eat I'm good."
Money
"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."
Racism
"Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing."
Want
"Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible."
Father
"You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up."
Career
"I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work."
Money
"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."
Art
"I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting."
Golf
"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."
Personality
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