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Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. – Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise

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Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. – Author Unknown

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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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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. – Carol Moseley-Braun

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The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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