Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
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In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
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If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
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