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• ‟ Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

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• ‟ The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

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• ‟ I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

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• ‟ I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

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• ‟ I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

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• ‟ What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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• ‟ Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

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