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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

Claudette Colvin

The light-skinned girls always thought they were better looking. So did the teachers, too. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn’t like themselves.
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Darkness People Skin
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
I’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
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Family Myself See
I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.
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Myself Right White Young
I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.
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Act Myself Time White
I’ve always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one to keep grounded, the other to deal with corporate America.
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Children Deal Myself World
I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
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Dream Myself People Right Thinking Young
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
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Father Human Ourselves People
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
I was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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Humility People Yourself
Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn’t get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it.
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God Live Thankful Worth
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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Black Establishment Myself People World
A lot has changed since I grew up, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There’s a disconnect there. We don’t want to regress, we want progress.
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Change Grow Up Myself Thinking
I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.
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Crazy Friendship Lost Myself

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