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But that’s the problem with your own life: you are way too close to it to see it clearly.


“Black children have to lose their innocence before white children do. They can't afford the luxury of just reading about the impact of racism and white supremacy in a book, because they're living it every day. Because oftentimes it means life or death.”
― The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
― The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

“Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.”
― Louisiana's Way Home
― Louisiana's Way Home

“Remind myself that there is no saving of people —people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they're ready.”
― The Flatshare
― The Flatshare

“It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel the work of darkness, because if we do not, then the power of falsehood rises.”
― Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
― Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change

“When we set our minds against one another, when we focus on destructive energy and propagate the negative notions of separation, division, discrimination, rejection, domination, and war, we waste our power in a futile attempt to debase, degrade, and even destroy the light in others.”
― Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
― Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change

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