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“It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churches and politics and professions were built around that lie," she (Betty Friedan) wrote. "If women were really people -- no more, no less -- then all the things that kept them from being full people in our society would have to be changed. And women, once they broke through the feminine mystique and took themselves seriously as people, would see their place on a false pedestal, even their glorification as sexual objects, for the putdown it was.”
― Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team

“By making our people in the Western Hemisphere hate Africa, we ended up hating ourselves. We hated our African characteristics. We hated our African identity. We hated our African features. So much so that you would find those of us in the West who would hate the shape of our nose. We would hate the shape of our lips. We would hate the color of our skin and the texture of our hair. This was a reaction, but we didn’t realize that it was a reaction.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa

“The elders constantly reminded Sacred Feathers of the need to make a vision quest -- to obtain, through fasting, a guardian spirit to guide and protect them through life. Animals, birds, and fish could speak with them and, in a dream or vision, give their power.”
― Donald B. Smith, Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians

“as a player you win once but when you win as a coach, you win...forty times.”
― James R. Wallen, Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football