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“Connections, like treasury bonds, are issued to every rich white person upon exiting the womb. Whenever one of them gets high and crashes their parents’ car, whenever they get busted for buying coke from an undercover, whenever they get caught messing with the wrong gangsters on vacation, they make a call, send a text, or whip out their AMEX.”

Wealth Racism Connections Equity Whites Inequity

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“You could see the fire in their faces, the madness mixing like cement behind their eyes.”

Madness Insanity Craziness

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“You see, it's easy for someone to walk around telling everyone that they're "jus' waitin' for the right opportunity," but an entirely different thing when they actually receive it. An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it's the potential of failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many people from beginning anything.”

Action Opportunity Change Failure Starting Fear Of Failure Beginning

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“I know it'll make me sound soft, but every time I saw her I felt like I was seeing her for the first time, like the earth only orbited the sun so it could see her from all angles.”

Love Relationships Beauty Worship

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“Back in my day, when a white man gave you an opportunity, it came at a cost. You could be his chauffeur, but had to always be available to drive him around no matter if you had plans with your family or not. You could vote, but someone would break your legs if you didn' vote for the candidate they wanted you to. But either way, an opportunity was an opportunity, and if you took it, and learned how to play their game, you could be successful.”

Racism Voting Opportunities Blacks Race Relations Whites Chauffeurs

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“If you are a Black man, the key to any white person's heart is the ability to shuck, jive, or freestyle. But use it wisely and sparingly. Otherwise you're liable to turn into Steve Harvey.”

Race Racism Blacks Race Relations Stereotypes Caricatures Whites Rapping Steve Harvey

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“My teeth are status quo and powerful, also known as white and straight...”

Teeth Status Quo Racial Awareness

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“I should have known from the Middle Passage to never trust a white man who says, "Take a seat." It could be your last.”

Race Racism African Americans Blacks Race Relations Whites Middle Passage

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“Because we know that when you lift others up, regardless of their skin color, your arms get stronger.”

Support Lifting Lifting Others Lifting Up

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“Hell hath no fury like a white man scorned. Especially in the world of business.”

Business Anger Scorn Whites White Men

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“Ain’ no Black people need no therapists, ’cause we don’ be havin’ those mental issues. OCD, ADD, PTSD, and all those other acronyms they be comin’ up with every day. I’m tellin’ you, the only acronyms Black folk need help with is the NYPD, FBI, CIA, KKK, and KFC, ’cause I know they be puttin’ shit in those twelve-piece bucket meals to make us addicted to them. All that saturated fat, sodium.”

Racism Therapy African Americans Blacks Police Brutality Chicken Fried Chicken Kfc Kentucky Fried Chicken

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