Best quotes by Clint Smith on History

Checkout quotes by Clint Smith on History

• ‟ The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

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• ‟ History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

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• ‟ As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.

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• ‟ I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.

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• ‟ 'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

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