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Quotes from Interview with On Being — Colette Pichon Battle

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Creole people were free people of color, and they could own land before many Black folks could. And so my family had been there before it was America, before it was the U.S.

Interview with On Being (2022)

And that was a moment where you sort of have this — it’s surreal. You don’t — who can believe your land won’t be there anymore? Most people still can’t conceptually understand that.

Interview with On Being (2022)

This is not about greenhouse gas reduction. This is about do we value people equally? And if we do, we’ve got some recalibrating to do, as a planet.

Interview with On Being (2022)

there are bad people in this world, but mostly, there are just people who don’t know.

Interview with On Being (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Colette Pichon Battle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.