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Lena Williams Quotes

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

Lena Williams
Hero, Ideas, People

We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

Lena Williams
Cutting
Lena Williams (2000). “It's the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that Get Under the Skin of Blacks and Whites”, Houghton Mifflin

Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.

Lena Williams
White, Racism, Black
Lena Williams (2002). “It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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