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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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"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?"
"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?"
"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."
"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
"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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"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."
"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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