Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Action Copy Share Image
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then… — Clint Smith Emotional Copy Share Image
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree… — Clint Smith Black Copy Share Image
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black… — Clint Smith America Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact,… — Clint Smith Adolescence Copy Share Image
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do… — Clint Smith Gun Copy Share Image
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an… — Clint Smith Ability Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Always Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does… — Clint Smith Career Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Dignity Copy Share Image
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith Chips Copy Share Image
In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B.… — Clint Smith Communication Copy Share Image
If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna… — Clint Smith Cutting Copy Share Image
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is. — Clint Smith Only Copy Share Image
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were… — Clint Smith Black people Copy Share Image
If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms. — Clint Smith Culture Copy Share Image
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our… — Clint Smith Black people Copy Share Image
We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have… — Clint Smith Better Copy Share Image
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice? — Clint Smith Needed Copy Share Image
I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject… — Clint Smith Intellectual Copy Share Image
Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth! — Clint Smith Books Copy Share Image
