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![“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things…” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3d9/nikki-giovanni-1757_battle_we-black-people-have-always-used-our-cre_3096037.png)
![“President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.” quote by Julianne Malveaux](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3be/julianne-malveaux-8775_barack_president-barack-obama-s-choice-of-rahm_997296.jpg)
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![“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and…” quote by John Ehrlichman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3ae/john-ehrlichman-73725_antiwar_t-he-nixon-campaign-in-1968-and-the-nixo_1977864.jpg)
