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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
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I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it…
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours…
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel…
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the…
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to…
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing…
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist…
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.…
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never…
— Bruce Brooks
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20 minutes later: a girl on Himmel Street. She looks up. She speaks in whisper. ‘The sky is soft today, Max. The…
— Markus Zusak
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Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away…
— Markus Zusak
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Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes when I look at her, it seems she could understand what I feel from my eyes but then she looks away
— Vijay H
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She looks at him, but then looks away. He looks at her, and wishes he had the right words to say.
— Patience
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She who looks back, and she looks away, She internalizes the motion wave.
— Rob Zombie
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When you fall I'll be the only one who looks away. When you call I'll be the first to tell you I…
— A Day To Remember
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And if I ever catch the ones who hurt you, I'm hoping that god looks away.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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