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“The people of Latin-America ethnologically are very little different from the Afro-American of this country,” a columnist for the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, wrote in 1915. “They have Indian blood in their veins; so have we. They
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“Chef grunts. “Reason and law don’t mean much when white folk want their way.”
― Ring Shout
― Ring Shout
“There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem.”
― The Consuming Fire
― The Consuming Fire
“There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― The Nickel Boys
― The Nickel Boys
“Douglass had to dismantle what Americans have always treasured most: their innocence, and the sense that their history was so exceptional that they had managed to avoid the problems other nations faced.”
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
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