"Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States."

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Ishmael Reed

#Education Quotes #Loyalty Quotes #White Quotes

“I is what I is, and I'm not changing,”

Source : "Paula Deen: I would not have fired me". "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. June 26, 2013.
“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.”
“General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!”
“"One impulse from a vernal wood”
“I don't think there's anything divisive about me.”
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
“Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.”
“I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.”

Source : "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'". Interview with Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

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