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"This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say."

Another perspective on the March on Washington: "One of the signature achievements of the civil rights movement during this era had been to transform jail time in the service of the movement from a stigma to an honor... Given the thousands of people who had been arrested all over the country, it could just have easily been called a mass gathering of former political prisoners."

"Women, whether or not they identify as feminists, feel guilt about the state of our homes in the same way we feel guilt about the state of our bodies - we feel ashamed of being seen to have somehow lost control, to be on sufficiently worthy of our womanhood as socially interpreted. "

"Only those who have power, for example, can define what is correct or incorrect. Only those who have power can decide what constitutes intellectualism. "

"Words should be laden with the meaning of people's existential experiences."

"Teaching strategies which seek to put white middle-class English into the mouths of black speakers ain did nothin to inculcate the black perspective necessary to address the crisis in the black community. We have, rather, a case of black people crying for bread and White America saying 'let 'em eat cake.'"

So this book is all about unfair admissions standards for the rich & famous, but its just making me nostalgic for undergrad!

"If they ain't calling you a Communist, you ain't doing your job." - Fannie Lou Hamer

"There is a street in Itta Bena called Freedom. There is a town in Mississippi called Liberty. There is a department in Washington called Justice. "

On personal is political: "When women internalized the idea that describing their own woe was synonymous with developing a critical political consciousness, the progress of feminist movement was stalled."

"[The Tuskegee Syphilis Study] is not an aberration...The study is part of a pattern of experimental abuse."

"Don't let the lion tell the giraffe's story."

One Vietnam vet arrested for $10 worth of marijuana who cannot vote until he's paid $900 in court costs: "They say I owe $900 in fines. To me, that's a poll tax. You've got to pay to vote. Its 'restitution,' they say.

"I'm living proof that Hitler didn't win."