"It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself.""

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Bocafloja

#Responsibility Quotes #Color Quotes #White Quotes

“It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.”
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”

Source : Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.355, Oxford University Press
“Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.”

Source : Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com. November 22, 2000.
“Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.”
“I don't want to die without any scars.”
“Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.”

Source : George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)
“There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
“You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.”

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