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“The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.”

Tree Minutes Eating Racism Responsible Racist Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Lynda Barry

“There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.”

Long Ends Grows Causes History Tree Racism Prejudice Greed Wave Distrust Curves Racial Prejudice Internment Oscillation

Book:Heart Mountain: A Novel

Source: Heart Mountain: A Novel

“If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Grief Tree Racism Raises Plant Seven Addiction Prisoner Entity Globes Frogs Static

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.”

Kind Body Tree Bears Racism Murder Dear Limbs Dear God Willow Trees

Author:Alice Dunbar Nelson

“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”

Hate Tree Racism Roots Anti Racism

Author:Malcolm X

“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”

Ifs Knows Men Country Black White Race Wonder Tree Racism Hatred Plant Branches White Man Plant A Tree Bare Branches

Author:Jean Genet