Njeri Brown Quotes

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Njeri Brown

Njeri Brown

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As soon as you double down on your blackness, they will double down on their bullshit... Who cares if you’re woke or not if you’re dead?

— Coco Conners (Antoinette Robertson), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter VI

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Sometimes being carefree and black is an act of revolution.

— Joelle Brooks (Ashley Blaine Featherson), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter V

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Rashid Bakr: This is what happens when a country refuses to address its history with slavery.

White Student: We need to do here what they did in Germany.

Everyone: What?!

White Student: I meant educating kids about the nation’s horrible past part, not the concentration camp part.

— Rashid Bakr (Jeremy Tardy), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter V

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Dear white people, having a black vibrator does not count as an interracial relationship.

— Coco Conners (Antoinette Robertson), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter IV

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I wanted an avant-garde look, like Solange — something that says, ‘I’m woke, but I’ll also kick your ass in an elevator.’

— Samantha White (Logan Browning), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter IV

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Troy: So you didn’t have a man around to show you what’s what?

Lionel: Yup. Which is why I chose to be gay… kidding. That’s not how it works.

— Lionel Higgins (DeRon Horton), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter VIII

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I like my men like I like my coffee ― full-bodied and preferably with Kenyan origins.

— Samantha White (Logan Browning), Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter IV

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Related quotes to Njeri Brown tagged Woke, Bullshit, Black

I still wake up white in a city that ain’t.

— Councilman Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti (Aidan Gillen), The Wire, Season 4: Soft Eyes

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There are two things I am passionate about: recycling and revenge.

— Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), The Office, Season 9: New Guys

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You don’t understand — some of the humor in my favorite TV show seems problematic, but it’s just ironic.

— Arwen Downs, 10 Things My Ex-Boyfriend Explained to Me When I Forgot That He is a “Woke” Cisgender White Male Who Has Definitely Checked His Privilege

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It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

— Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

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Since when did it become okay for you to be silenced at the expense of another person’s happiness? Since when did you become fine with accepting bullshit? What made you to believe that you aren’t worth better?

— Sara Di Tullio, You Don’t Need Him Anymore, It’s Time To Cut The Cord

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Black is the most aristocratic color of all…There is no color that will give you the feeling of totality. Of peace. Of greatness. Of quietness. Of excitement.

— Louise Nevelson, Dawns and Dusks: Taped Conversations With Diana MacKown

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I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.

— Nirvana, Heart-Shaped Box (In Utero - 20th Anniversary - Deluxe Edition)

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I look inside myself and see my heart is black.

— The Rolling Stones, Paint It, Black (Aftermath (Remastered)

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Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

— Mike Epps, via www.successories.com

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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy—but mysterious… Black can swallow light, or make things look sharp. But above all black says this: ‘I don’t bother you—don’t bother me!’

— Yohji Yamamoto, Fashion's Poet of Black: YAMAMOTO

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Black, gay and old? I'm not gonna know which box to check on the hate crime form.

— Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Season 1: Kimmy Kisses a Boy!

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There’s no such thing as good and evil, black and white. There’s only gray. There’s only what a man can stand.

— Dr. Hunter 'Hap' Percy (Jason Isaacs), The OA, Season 1: Invisible Self

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...black performers were carving out a life -- a significant, adventurous, amazing life, amidst all that. Why despite how tragic and ugly it often is, I love history. It's full of people who give the middle finger to adversity.

— Joy Reid, via twitter.com

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Columbia, South Carolina just fired the CAPTAIN of the Fire Department after he posted online that he was considering running over some Black Lives Matter activists if he saw them.
America. 2016.

— Shaun King, America. 2016.

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It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us,' We’re going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished.

— Beyoncé Knowles, FREEDOM

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Black women, we see you. We love you. We are with you and we believe in your leadership.

— Common, Common Pays Tribute to Diamond Reynolds at the 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors

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To be black in America is to exist in haunting, mundane proximity to death at all moments.

— Hannah Giorgis, I Am Tired Of Watching Black People Die

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