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We sweat for a nickel and a dime Turn it into an empire. -Rhianna, American Oxygen.

Dear white people, the minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, but your weed man, Tyrone, does not count.-Sam White, Dear White People.

And then he said it again, he said, “He looks like me.” So at that point I looked at him and looked at the photo, and he did look like Michael Brown. And I began to think, I wish there was a way to stop him from identifying with somebody who is dead. But the real understanding was that he too could be dead, at any point.

"John Henryism-For people exposed to stresses stemming from racism. They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure." "You hope by sitting in silence you are bucking the trend."-From Citizen, Rankine

but i’ve been watching from the slaughterhouse. ever since you named me edible. tossed in a cookie at the end. lucky man. go & take what’s yours.- Franny Choi.

The books you're always reading? Don't you know the size of your library is in inverse proportion to the size of your penis? - Unknown White Woman

“That major that she majored in don’t make no money
But she won’t drop out, her parents will look at her funny” -Kanye West, All Falls Down.

Our sense is that the criminal system cannot be relied upon to administer justice for black folks, and was, in fact, historically designed to control blacks with a racial caste system. -Richael Faithful, #BLACKLIVESMATTER KITCHEN TALK