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" Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. "

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" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "

" One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. "

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" I get angry about things, then go on and work. "

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" Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. "

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" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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