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Black-and-white photographs and film footage can convince us that these episodes transpired in a distant past, untouched by our contemporary world. Segregation shaped every aspect of my grandmother's education.

— Clint Smith How the Word is Passed (2021)

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Memory, for me, is often a home where the furniture has been rearranged one too many times.

To deny the full humanity of others is to deny it within ourselves.

Counting Descent (2017)

Rewatching the Freedom Riders documentary, seeing the face of a young John Lewis, and I'm reminded of how so many of the ppl who spit on, cursed at, & assaulted these riders are ppl who are still alive today. Still alive, still voting, still here. None of this was that long ago.

It’s not a feeling of guilt. It’s a feeling of ‘discovered ignorance'

How the Word is Passed (2021)

I simply cannot imagine having access to that much wealth (a billion dollars is one thousand stacks of a million dollars!) and thinking that using a minuscule percentage of that money to make sure other people have access to food, homes, and education was a bad thing.

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