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“Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.”
― The Beautiful Ones Sheet Music
― The Beautiful Ones Sheet Music
“We can't attack a thing we don't know. That's dangerous. And...foolish. It would be like trying to chop down a tree from the top of it. If we understand how the tree works, how the trunk and roots are where the power lies, and how gravity is on our side, we can attack it, each of us with small axes, and change the face of the the forest.”
― Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
― Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
“Douglass argued for the fundamental humanity of African American people: “When men oppress their fellow-men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”
― Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
― Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
“Conceptual metaphors generally ‘outlive’ the specific words and expressions that involve them.”
― Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
― Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“To make that decision, we will have to avoid the trap of placing the burden of our national sins on the shoulders of Donald Trump. We need to look inward. Trump is us. Or better, Trump is you.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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