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The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They d...more

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White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening

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he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch

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Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just bla...more

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You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black wri...more

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Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to swea...more

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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

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Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but the...more

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As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?’ Why didn’t she j...more

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I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, and they said I was dissing myself. So now I say bir...more

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They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and ...more

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In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken...more

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My Fellow Non-American Blacks: In America, You Are Black, Baby Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black....more

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In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.

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It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair