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African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.

~Chaka Fattah

Topics: Academic Access African African American Algebra American Caused Discipline Disparate Disparity Educational Less More Outcomes Peers Problem Resources Restraint Significant Students Than White

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I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.

~Chris Van Hollen

Topics: Active African African American American Been Community Congressional Difference District Important Important Work Life Makes Many Opportunity Organizations Our Our Community Privileged Quality Quality Of Life Social Tangible Work

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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

~Christopher Priest

Topics: African African American American Both Center Created Eyes Just Men Oh Opened Peter Possibilities Sort Together Turner Visions Whom Writer

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I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.

~Cindy Sheehan

Topics: Actually African African American American American President Around Because Circle Empire First His Left Me Might Our People Policies President Racism Reverse Say So-Called Some Some People Still Think Who I Think

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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Accelerate African African American Aging Agreed Also American American History College College Football Culture Deterioration Football Grandfather Had He High High School High School And College His History Joints Knees Knows Long Man Museum National Once Proud Proud Man Pushed School Sit Through Walked Were Wheelchair Who Years

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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About African African American Allowed American Because Being David Different Different Kinds Elevator Hopefully Inspires Kinds Me Metaphor Own Published Race Ralph See Someone Take Them Using Voices Wanting Weird World Write

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Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

~Constance Wu

Topics: Actress African African American American Auditioning Because Box Check Ethnic Girl Indian Latina Lead Like Need Off Our Slot Third White Will

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I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

~Cory Booker

Topics: African African American Am American Christian Deeply Leader Man Understood Want I Am

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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

~Cory Booker

Topics: African African American American Away Before Better Better Life Born Chances Circumstances Days Election Father Few Growing Growing Up Had He His Last Life Man Mother Passed Poor Same Single Single Mother South Than Today Up Worry Would Years Young Young Man

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I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well.

~Cory Hardrict

Topics: African African American American Because Continue Done Get Goal Good Good Material Hard Just Just Because Masses Material People Person Push Show Still Stop Them Touch Trying Universal Until Well World You

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