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“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.”

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Author:Richard Wright

“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.”

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Book:No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History

Source: No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History

“One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.”

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Book:An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

Source: An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

“The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.”

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Author:Guy Burgess