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The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Assert Brave Continue Face Humanity Important Most Someone The Most Important Thing Think I Think

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We tend to think of racism as this interpersonal verbal or physical abuse, when in truth, that is only one way that racism manifests itself. The reality of contemporary racism is that it while it is ubiquitous, it is often invisible, subsequently making it more difficult to name and identify.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Abuse Contemporary Difficult Identify Interpersonal Invisible Itself Making More Name Often One Way Only Only One Way Physical Racism Reality Subsequently Tend Think Truth Verbal Way While Ubiquitous

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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Attention Listening Much Pay Pay Attention People Rarely Saying So Much Time Spend Things Time

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Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?

~Clint Smith

Topics: Ever Needed Voice Who You Your

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Silence is the residue of fear.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Fear Silence

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My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Advice Alarm Armor Bells Breath Lungs Make Me Memory Ocean Our Parents Raised Sibling Skin Someone Steal

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When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Affirm Because Black Existing Fear Lives Many Matter Must Others Say Simply Tell Things Us Without Worthy

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I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Anything Born Guilty Hand He His Live Mistaken Moment Other Son Than Toy Want Where Will World

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I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

~Clint Smith

Topics: About Been Poetry Seriously Since Writing

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When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Against Country Dragging Duet Entire Entire Life Forget Founded Freedom Ground Life Shackles Sing You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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