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"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?"
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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
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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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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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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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"Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again."
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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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"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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"Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & 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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"If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight."
Courage
"I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise."
Values
"If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything."
Support
"Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them."
Devotion
"I will help build your museum. When you run out of space to hang your work. You can hang your work in mine."
Support
"Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?"
Culture
"I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all."
Isolation
"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."
Creation
"America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full."
Social-Justice
"They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets."
Beauty
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