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The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.
Clint Smith
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I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.
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Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
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Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
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My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
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When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
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I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.
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I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.
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Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.
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When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
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If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
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