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See, I only date hood. My last man? He never even met his father. Four women, six kids. Three of whom are named after luxury cars.

Ross Gay “Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue“ (via mgs-1)

This quote is taken from a speech given by a white woman who defines blackness and what it means to be a black guy. It is extremely offensive and degrading to the black community. It talks about the stereotype of black families being dysfunctional where the children don’t know their parents and have loose morals. I think it is shocking to see how a non-black person defines who is an ideal black guy without having lived through any relevant experiences. 

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“Now the pendulum has swung back........black is in fashion”

- Get Out by Jordan Peele

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“Don't you know the size of your library is in inverse proportion to the size of your penis?” 

-Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue  ROSS GAY

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“It seems we living the american dream But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem The prettiest people do the ugliest things” - All Falls Down KANYE WEST

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“ social media can serve as an important tool for challenging the various forms of racial profiling .”

-  Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States by Bonilla and Rosa

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“You can be anything at all In America, America I say, can't see Just close your eyes and breathe”

-  "American Oxygen," Rihanna Lyrics

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“As a general rule no one should ever say that there is no history of racial tension here because that sentence has never been true anywhere on earth.”

- Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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"My life seems to be an increasing revelation of the intimate trace of universal struggle,"

- Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination by Patricia Hill Collins

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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

Rankine “from Citizen” (via mgs-1)

This is a very disturbing quote which brings to light how perception and mistreatment at the hands of others, makes one feel degraded. Being a black person does not make one less or even make them notice their skin color for it is who they are, a part of their identity. It is through white people’s misbehavior that one feels “colored” and inferior.

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“When America pulls open the curtain of white supremacy, the truth emerges much like the Wizard in Oz—not only do Black lives matter, their lives are the reason that white lives still exist.”

- #BLACKLIVESMATTER KITCHEN TALK  by Faithful

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“The legacy and prevalence of anti-Black racism and hetero-patriarchy is a lynch pin holding together this unsustainable economy.  And that’s not an accidental analogy.”

-A HERSTORY OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT Alicia Garza

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“Do you feel hurt because it’s the “ all black people look the same” moment or because you are being confused with another after being so close to this other.”

- Rankine from Citizen

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“Whites cloak their racism or negative racial predisposition in a symbolic racism or blacks are represented as not inherently inferior but instead as culturally inferior.”

- Whose Black Lives Matter? by Cathy Cohen

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“Lookin Ass”    Nicki Minaj

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“Earned all this money but they never take the country out me”

- Formation   Beyonce

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“Momma taught me good home training My Daddy taught me how to love my haters My sister told me I should speak my mind My man made me feel so God damn fine (I'm flawless!)”

-Flawless Remix(lyrics)         BEYONCE FEAT. NICKI MINAJ