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title: "5 Life Racism Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/forest-whitaker/i-ve-had-many-incidents-in-my-life-of-racism-i-ve-been-thrown-on-the/)

[Forest Whitaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/forest-whitaker/)

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> [I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/i-was-teasing-my-brother-that-he-was-penniless-homeless-jobless-right/)

[Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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> [“Racism and the days of slavery does not exist in me or my thought or everyday living. It does not encompass me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-singleton/racism-and-the-days-of-slavery-does-not-exist-in-me-or-my-thought-or/)

[Joan Singleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-singleton/)

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> [We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-cisneros/we-have-to-be-honest-we-have-to-be-truthful-and-speak-to-the-one/)

[Henry Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-cisneros/)

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> [If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chester-himes/if-one-lives-in-a-country-where-racism-is-held-valid-and-practiced-in/)

[Chester Himes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chester-himes/)

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