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“We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign’nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.”
― Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
― Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
“Make sure your decency, your humanity, is the last thing you give up.”
― The Last Thing You Surrender
― The Last Thing You Surrender
“All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold. The Kings and Captains whose words moved ships. But not one word from the cargo. The thoughts of the “black ivory,” the “coin of Africa,” had no market value. Africa’s ambassadors to the New World have come and worked and died, and left their spoor, but no recorded thought.”
― Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
― Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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