Quotes

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Quotes About Identity

“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that.”
- C. JoyBell C.

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

- Audre Lorde

Quotes About Society

Segregation is growing in degree and complexity as the nation becomes increasingly multiracial.

- Gary Orfield

BUT...

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

- Audre Lorde

"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue".

- Cornel West

Multicultural Quotes in General

"I stand here today grateful for the diversity of my heritage....There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America".

-Barack Obama

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue".

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