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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. his...more

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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I sustain myself with the love of family.

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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black,...more

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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of m...more

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My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguis...more

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The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion. She questions wh...more