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"I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist."
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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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"I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist."
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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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"It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president."
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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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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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"Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else."
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"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."
Grief
"But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer."
Forgiveness
"If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time."
Time
"What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said."
Friendship
"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."
Pain
"I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird."
Identity
"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
Abuse
"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
Reading
"Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!"
Diversity
"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads."
Education
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