"Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this… — Erykah Badu
• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
• The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
• Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
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