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“Even later, in het gemeentehuis, gaf mijn moeder me mijn naam. 'Thomas,' zei ze. 'Hij heet Thomas.”

Book:Welkom bij de club

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“Most racism is pushed through media houses. Check the heading, wording and pictures they use, even the cartoons. Infect, I am starting to think. There is no media that likes black people or people of color. They might downplay it and say it is click bait, but how messed up are you . To use racism as click bait, unless you are racists yourself and see nothing wrong about it.”

Philosophy Quotes Black People Black Lives Matter Apartheid Racist Or Racism People Of Colour Africans Or Africa Media Or Media Houses

Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos

“[T]he accumulated insults and indignations caused by racial presumptions are destructive in ways that are hard to measure. Constantly being suspected, accused, watched, doubted, distrusted, presumed guilty, and even feared is a burden borne by people of color that can’t be understood or confronted without a deeper conversation about our history of racial injustice.”

Racism Prejudice Racial Injustice People Of Colour

Book:Just Mercy

Source: Just Mercy

“One of the worse things that could happen to a colored man was for him to be stranded by himself on a country road without a weapon.”

Needy Women Depression Years

Book:Breaking Ice: an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

Source: Breaking Ice: an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

“If you grew up in a less-than-fortunate situation, then it needs to be turned into fuel for growth, not uncorrected bad behaviour.”

Life Soul Spirituality Growth Relationships Healing Consciousness Personal Development Spiritual Growth Behaviour

Book:Sonder: Spiritual Fiction

Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction

“These dreams These empty dreams from the make-believe bedrooms their parents left them are the after-effects of television programs about the ideal white american family with black maids and latino janitors who are well train to make everyone and their bill collectors laugh at them and the people they represent”

Racism Immigration Puerto Rican Nuyorican East Harlem

Author:Pedro Pietri

“I have a pint of Puerto Rican rum from Ponce that I am drinking from at intervals in between punctuations on my notes for future reference. Wine is unkind to the mind. I have no emotional use for it. It instigates headaches and induces depression. Rum is articulate.”

Puerto Rican Nuyorican

Book:Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

Source: Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

“You're a nice man, Steve. So kind. I'm going to tell my grandmother to pray for you." And I hope he can see in my face that I just sprinkled the juju of a spiteful Puerto Rican grandmother all over his life.”

Shade Puerto Rican

Book:With the Fire on High

Source: With the Fire on High

“They ask for freedom and they practice oppression”

Freedom Oppression Puerto Rico Feminists Puerto Rican

Author:Luisa Capetillo

“Poetry such as "Puerto Rican Obituary" highlights another significant aspect of movement thought: the shift from cultural shame to ethnic pride. Unlike earlier critiques of prejudice and discrimination, movement rhetoric and writings often focused on the emotional and psychic damage of racism, exploring the need to overcome internalized shame and self-hate.”

Poetry Pride Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Puerto Ricans Puertorico

Book:The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

Source: The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

“Dícenme que mi abuelo fue el esclavo por quien el amo dio trienta monedas. Ay, ay, ay, que el esclavo fue mi abuelo es mi pena, es mi pena. Si hubiera sido el amo, sería mi vergüenza; que en los hombres, igual que en las naciones, si el ser el siervo es no tener derechos, el ser el amo es no tener conciencia. They tell me that my grandfather was the slave for whom the master paid thirty coins. Ay, ay, ay, that the slave was my grandfather is my sadness, is my sadness. If he had been the master it would be my shame: that in men, as in nations, if being the slave is having no rights being the master is having no conscience. (Ay, Ay, Ay de la grifa negra/Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress)”

Slavery Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Black Poetry

Author:Julia de Burgos

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