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there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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“People are so afraid of dying that they don’t even live the little bit of life they have.”
― The Awkward Black Man: Stories
― The Awkward Black Man: Stories
“The Jungle Creed says the Strong must Feed on any Prey at Hand,
I was Branded a Beast and Sat at a Feast before I was a Man.”
― Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
I was Branded a Beast and Sat at a Feast before I was a Man.”
― Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp
“had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.”
― The Awkward Black Man: Stories
― The Awkward Black Man: Stories
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
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