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Kent Garrett
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“At age fifty-five, I left NBC News, fed up with the rat race, office politics, and the intense commercialization of the news. Farming was hard, but it was good for the soul and the ego. The cows didn’t care that I had been a big-time producer and had won three Emmys. They shit on me anyway.”
― The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
― The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
“It was true that my room, especially after the grandeur of what we’d seen so far that afternoon, looked pretty old, small, and bare. We associated high status with oversized, ostentatious luxury, and the idea that the Spartan might be chosen for its own sake, or that simplicity could be more prestigious than extravagance, was simply not part of our concept of social class, which had been shaped by life in the rural South and in the poor districts of New York City.”
― The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
― The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
“Learning and knowledge were part of the white man’s game, and to be Black and intellectual was to be not, to my mind, normal. The normal kids were back in the neighborhood. The few friends I made at JHS 210 lived all over the city, so I couldn’t hang out with them and do the normal things, like playing stickball, talking about girls and records, and just hanging around the ’hood, keeping clear of the gangs. My parents would see to it that getting back to “normal” never happened.”
― The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
― The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
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