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“She was thinking about prejudice, how it might begin so simply--they come from elsewhere, they don't look the way I do. Why did people want to match? And here they were in the great multicultural city of the first African-American but also half-white U.S. president in history.” — Naomi Shihab Nye

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She was thinking about prejudice, how it might begin so simply--they come from elsewhere, they don't look the way I do. Why did people want to match? And here they were in the great multicultural city of the first African-American but also half-white U.S. president in history.
— Naomi Shihab Nye