It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its … - Beverly Daniel Tatum

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Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

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To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?

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Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

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To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

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The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

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We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.

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Ali MacGraw

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

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Olafur Eliasson

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

They are the carrion birds of humanity. . . [speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens. . . The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.

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Plato

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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