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No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. Washington

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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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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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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. – Countess of Blessington

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