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In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into...

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For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut...

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Alice WalkerIn Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their percep...

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Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it i...

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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

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The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used ...

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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Because the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, when drug offen...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Segregation has no place in the education system.

All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else i...

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I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support an...

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