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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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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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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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"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."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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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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"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."
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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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"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."
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"The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time."
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"My feelings about myself have been terrible."
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"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."
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"In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort."
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"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."
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"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
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"I always want more."
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"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."
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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."
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