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When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.

Claudette Colvin

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
We were churchgoing people.
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People Religious
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
I was ostracized by my community.
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Community Myself Oppression
There were many African Americans – many, many stories similar to my story.
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Myself Race Story
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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Hairs Myself Women
I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Myself Sleep
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’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
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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Person Talk White Worst
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
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
What do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’
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God Grow Up Love People White
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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Mom Myself Satisfaction Stop
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
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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Oppression Yourself

When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.

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