Jeff Chang Quotes

#1. But racism and inequality would never end if Blacks focused on easing white anxiety.

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#2. People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well.
'Here you are, now entertain us'.
But are we allowed to lead?

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#3. Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.

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#4. Millions wanted to see shows written, directed, and acted by people of colour telling stories about themselves. Duh.

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#5. Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands of the state or structures that kill.

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#6. A turn in fortune should move us toward empathy and solidarity....But we live in a time when merchants of division draw us away from mutuality and toward the undoing of democracy itself.

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#7. Generations are fictions.

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#8. But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People

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