"The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature jails, really. Itâ€™s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated."

-- Barack Obama

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“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.”
“No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'”
“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”

Source : "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.
“I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.”
“The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.”
“In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.”
“Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.”

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