Charlayne Hunter-Gault Quotes

• If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  People, Prejudice, Hostage

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• You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Racism, Black, Situation

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• I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Thinking, Rights, Movement

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• The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  School, Independent, Years

  "Africa Update: Oprah Winfrey's Work with Schoolgirls". "New & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007".

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• The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  Government, Poor, South

  "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.

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