Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned.. Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation.. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Until the color of a...
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Haile Selassie
When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back
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Lee Benson
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it–whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is,...
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Harper Lee
And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.' He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with love: that was all that he'd asked for that...
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
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Muhammad Ali
More Quotes By Buchi Emecheta
She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.
Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?
She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.
