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"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."
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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
"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."
"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."
"In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'"
"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."
"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?"
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"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."
"It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater."
"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
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