Brittney
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Yeah man, dat’s de way it ’tis—niggers think up eve’ything good and de white folks steal it from us. Dass right. Nigger invented de train. White man seen it and run right off and made him one jes’ lak it and told eve’ybody he thought it up.
“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
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