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"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
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"Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again."
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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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"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."
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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?"
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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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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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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."
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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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"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
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"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
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"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life
"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."
Friendship
"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
People
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair
"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."
People
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."
Music
"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."
Music
"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."
Experience
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