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Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Blackness Coat Off Remains Take You

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While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.

~Clint Smith

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Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.

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Topics: About Despair Girl Jumping Just Just Be More Poem Rope Should Something Sometimes

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We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Better Color Communities Decisions Doing Harder Made Merely Message Own People Present Say Should Succeed Worked Young Young People

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I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Confronted Days Life May My Life Racism Seem Some Sure True

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I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.

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Topics: Folks Follow Idea Intellectual Kind Look Really Reject Scholars Some Thinkers Tradition Up Who

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It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.

~Clint Smith

Topics: History Important Incredibly Inequality Understand

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Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Bad Criminal Entire Entire Lives Lives Media Messaging Our Person Tells Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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