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" For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. "

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