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Proverbs 13:20 – "Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm."

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"A fool is a wise man's ladder." Ghana Proverb

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"But I wondered how the justification of blatant and mindless tyranny, on any level, could operate in the interests of liberty, and I wondered what interior, unspoken urgencies of these people made necessary so thoroughly unattractive a delusion." - "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin

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“How far must you go to gain respect? Um…” - Q-Tip

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"And there is something demeaning about repeatedly yelling “I am a human” in a world premised on denying that fact." - "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at least finding the other end of it about his own neck." Frederick Douglass

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Romans 8:31 - "What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

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“How far must you go to gain respect? Um…” Q Tip

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"Home of the brave, land of the free I don’t wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie." Bourgeois Blues Lead Belly

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"We are to seek beauty and find ourselves." - Rebecca Walker "Well-Read Black Girl" by Glory Edim

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"It isn’t as if we got up today and said, you know, “what can we do to irritate America?” . . . It’s because that since 1619, Negroes have tried every method of communication, of transformation of their situation from petition to the vote, everything. We’ve tried it all." - Lorraine Hansberry

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"The purpose of evil was to survive it." —Toni Morrison, Sula

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” - James Baldwin

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"It is hard to begin to understand that the drift in American life towards chaos is masked by all these smiling faces and all these do-good efforts." - "The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings" by James Baldwin

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“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead." - "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin

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“But for power truly to feel itself menaced, it must somehow sense itself in the presence of another power—or, more accurately, an energy—which it has not known how to define and therefore does not really know how to control." - "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin

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"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist" James Baldwin

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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." —James Baldwin

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"When power translates itself into tyranny, it means that the principles on which that power depended, and which were its justification, are bankrupt." - "No Name in the Street" by James Baldwin

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He ain’t even let the day marinate a lil before resorting to racism like…. did he even brush his teeth yet? Did he even try? 😭😭😭

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