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The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the g

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison

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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

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