• I've given up trying to challenge commodification in that respect. It's an unending battle and you never win any victories.
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• "It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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• I have reconciled myself to the existence of this historical figure and its relationship to the work that I'm trying to do today.
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• The prison system bears the imprint of slavery perhaps more than any other institution.
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• White people knew they were free because they could point to the people who weren't free.
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• We are still confronted by the failure of the affirmative side of abolition all these years later.
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• Racism is not exactly the same now as it was then. But there were issues that were never addressed and now present themselves in different manifestations today.
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• You only move on if you resolve these issues. It took 100 years to get the right to vote.
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• It was never about individuals. I never grew up thinking that the measure of my success was as an individual.
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• I would go so far as to say that many middle-class black people have internalised the same racist attitudes to working-class black people as white people have of the black criminal.
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