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Johnnetta B. Cole

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Anthropologist

Johnnetta B. Cole is an esteemed American anthropologist born in October 1936. She has conducted extensive research in the field of anthropology, particularly in African and African American cultures. Professor Cole has had a profound impact in both academic and public spheres, focusing on issues of gender, race, and identity.

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“If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.”

People Ifs Dad Folks Gender Racist Gender Equality Sexist Gum Anti Racist

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“I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.”

Grew Grew Up South Injustice Segregation Apartheid Racial Segregation

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“While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.”

People Wells Action Vision

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“if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.”

Ifs Children Our Lives Our Children Consumerism Bmw Vcr Acronyms Rvs

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“There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.”

Stills Two Stories Jobs Easy Black President Education Hell Week Fields College Died African American Black Women Two Weeks

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“The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.”

World Should Reality Education Study Students Curriculum

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“racism is alive and doing too well in America.”

Wells America Alive Racism

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“Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.”

People World Seems Nations Community Conditions Racism Crisis African American Poorest Harlem Bangladesh

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“the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!”

Men Behinds Trouble Standing

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“An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.”

World Done Half Teach Better Place Other Half Assignments

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“The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.”

Way Seems Alive Honesty Daughter Profound My Daughter Bores Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mom And Daughter Daughter To Father Mother And Daughter Relationship

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“The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.”

Important Poor Family Kings Queens Powerless Conqueror Kings And Queens

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“You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.”

Thinking Nations Knowing Path Neighborhood Finding Your Path

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“What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Deals Ought Direct Blessed Stewardship

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“The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.”

Inspirational Giving Expression Ultimate Who You Are Generosity

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“Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.”

Inspirational Shows Failure Mediocrity Show Me Destined Overcoming Failure

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“Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.”

Wells Seems Remember Impossible Groups Tasks Folks Ties Lions Spiders Spider Web African Proverbs

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“Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.”

Ifs Knows Want Able Secret Example Secret Love

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“The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.”

Matter Together Past New Day

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“The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.”

Men Black Rap Myth Expenses Black Women

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Born: October 19, 1936
Known for: Anthropologist
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