No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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