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“And give no damns that the white kids be looking at us like we don't belong at that school, in their lunchroom, sticking tongs into their salad bars. Fuck no. Don't even know they're in the presence of royalty when they ask, How come you all sit together? without checking their own all-white tables.”
― Red at the Bone
― Red at the Bone
“When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone knows what should happen to racists.”
― How to Fight Anti-Semitism
― How to Fight Anti-Semitism
“The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
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