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"They are only human beings, mired by the pride and habit of being themselves, incapable of seeing all the people they could have been and the lives they could have lived. If the world were more generous, perhaps, then yes, life would be different. "

"You engineered human misery. You took freedom from people, forced labor upon them without compensation, and orchestrated their torture for sport. And if their dignity demanded better for themselves, you made them pay with their lives."

"Black women are not one great vat of homogenized chocolate milk. We have many different faces, and we do not have to become each other in order to work together."

"Things dont happen all at once, of course. They start gradually, changes occurring imperceptibly. You barely notice the differences, and once they make themselves known, they seem so small that you easily accept them, adjust your life in a miniscule way...Then another change, another adjustment, and so on and so on, and before you know it, you're living a life that by all accounts should be unrecognizable..."