As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
CLAUDETTE COLVINThe 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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There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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I was ostracized by my community.
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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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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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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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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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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
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Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn’t the case at all.
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We were churchgoing people.
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I wanted to be an attorney. My mother would say I never stopped talking. I always had a lot of questions to ask, and I was never satisfied with the answer. A lot of things I wasn’t satisfied by.
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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
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