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racism is alive and doing too well in America.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Alive
America
Racism
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Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.
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Example
Secret Love
Want
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Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.
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Inspirational
Failure
Mediocrity
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The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Men
Black
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the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Men
Behinds
Trouble
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The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
New Day
Past
Together
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The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Daughter
Honesty
Mother And Daughter
Mother Daughter
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The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Inspirational
Expression
Generosity
Giving
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if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
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Children
Rvs
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The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Family
Kings
Queens
Important
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You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
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Knowing
Path
Thinking
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While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
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People
Vision
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What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Blessed
Giving
Stewardship
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Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Groups
Tasks
Ties
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If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Dad
People
Racist
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I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Grew
Injustice
Segregation
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An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.
Johnnetta B. Cole / Anthropologist
Done
Half
World
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The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.
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Education
Reality
World
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Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.
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Community
People
Racism
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There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.
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Education
Jobs
College
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