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“My focus is on using everything at my disposal, from storytelling to access to finances, to help create a better and freer future for all people of color, especially young people. In large part, this means finding ways to educate and inform the white people who want to listen and grow.”

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Book:The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

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“The idea of being color-blind and of trying to steer conversations away from race are the most manipulative and powerful tools of racism. They allow white people to continue to be comfortable.”

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“The inability of people to accept accountability for doing things that are wrong is in the DNA of America. It's why people can't accept that America was founded on land stolen from indigenous people and that Black people are still feeling the legacy of slavery.”

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“All Lives Matter is directly related to white people not wanting to see color and not wanting to make things about race.”

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“We need to uplift the importance of Black lives because so many people act as if those lives don't count.”

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