Lena Williams Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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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