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“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“That is what it truly means to think as an antiracist: to think there is nothing wrong with Black people, to think that racial groups are equal. There are lazy and unwise and harmful individuals of African ancestry. There are lazy and unwise and harmful individuals of European ancestry. There are industrious and wise and harmless individuals of European ancestry. There are industrious and wise and harmless individuals of African ancestry. But no racial group has ever had a monopoly on any type of human trait or gene—not now, not ever.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“the only thing wrong with Black people is that we think something is wrong with Black people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

“My research kept pointing me to the same answer: The source of racist ideas was not ignorance and hate, but self-interest.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist