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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “I look back and see centuries of creative evolution of the hatred for Black bodies. I look at the present – police brutality, racial disparities, backlash against being “politically correct,” hatred for our first Black president, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and the election of a chief executive who stoked the fire of racial animosity to win – and I ask myself, Where is your hope, Austin? The answer: It is but a shadow.”

51. “I look back and see centuries of creative evolution of the hatred for Black bodies. I look at the present – police brutality, racial disparities, backlash against being “politically correct,” hatred for our first Black president, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and the election of a chief executive who stoked the fire of racial animosity to win – and I ask myself, Where is your hope, Austin? The answer: It is but a shadow.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “When white people stop short of reconciliation, it’s often because they are motivated by a deep need to believe in their own goodness, and for that goodness to be affirmed over and over and over again.”

52. “When white people stop short of reconciliation, it’s often because they are motivated by a deep need to believe in their own goodness, and for that goodness to be affirmed over and over and over again.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “My story is not about condemning white people but about rejecting the assumption – sometimes spoken, sometimes not – that white is right: closer to God, holy, chosen, the epitome of being.”

53. “My story is not about condemning white people but about rejecting the assumption – sometimes spoken, sometimes not – that white is right: closer to God, holy, chosen, the epitome of being.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “Anger is not inherently destructive. My anger can be a force for good. My anger can be creative and imaginative, seeing a better world that doesn’t yet exist. It can fuel a righteous movement toward justice and freedom. I don’t need to fear my own anger. I don’t have to be afraid of myself. I am not mild-mannered.”

54. “Anger is not inherently destructive. My anger can be a force for good. My anger can be creative and imaginative, seeing a better world that doesn’t yet exist. It can fuel a righteous movement toward justice and freedom. I don’t need to fear my own anger. I don’t have to be afraid of myself. I am not mild-mannered.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “My anger didn’t scare me. The Bible is filled with stories of God handling anger from people far more important than me. I needed to let someone have it. God was there.”

55. “My anger didn’t scare me. The Bible is filled with stories of God handling anger from people far more important than me. I needed to let someone have it. God was there.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “We have refused to honestly confront the fact that so many were willing to die in order to hold the freedom of others in their hands. We have refused to acknowledge slavery’s role at all, preferring to boil things down to the far more palatable “states’ rights.” We have not confessed that the end of slavery was so bitterly resented, the rise of Jim Crow became inevitable – and with it, a belief in Black inferiority that lives on in hearts and minds today.”

56. “We have refused to honestly confront the fact that so many were willing to die in order to hold the freedom of others in their hands. We have refused to acknowledge slavery’s role at all, preferring to boil things down to the far more palatable “states’ rights.” We have not confessed that the end of slavery was so bitterly resented, the rise of Jim Crow became inevitable – and with it, a belief in Black inferiority that lives on in hearts and minds today.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “The role of a bridge builder sounds appealing until it becomes clear how often that bridge is your broken back.”

57. “The role of a bridge builder sounds appealing until it becomes clear how often that bridge is your broken back.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “But rather than my race being the elephant in the room, it seemed instead to be my secret knowledge. I knew all about the world of my white teachers and peers, but they didn’t seem to know a thing about mine.”

58. “But rather than my race being the elephant in the room, it seemed instead to be my secret knowledge. I knew all about the world of my white teachers and peers, but they didn’t seem to know a thing about mine.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “Because I am a Black person, my anger is considered dangerous, explosive, and unwarranted. Because I am a woman, my anger supposedly reveals an emotional problem or gets dismissed as a temporary state that will go away once I choose to be rational.”

59. “Because I am a Black person, my anger is considered dangerous, explosive, and unwarranted. Because I am a woman, my anger supposedly reveals an emotional problem or gets dismissed as a temporary state that will go away once I choose to be rational.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “Even if you put it back on the shelf, Austin, you can’t touch store products and then put your hands in your pockets,” he explained as his large hands gently removed mine from their denim hiding place. “Someone might notice and assume you are trying to steal.”

60. “Even if you put it back on the shelf, Austin, you can’t touch store products and then put your hands in your pockets,” he explained as his large hands gently removed mine from their denim hiding place. “Someone might notice and assume you are trying to steal.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “It’s work to always be hypervisible because of your skin – easily identified as being present or absent – but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you.”

61. “It’s work to always be hypervisible because of your skin – easily identified as being present or absent – but for your needs to be completely invisible to those around you.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “I had worked for a number of organizations that struggled to create meaningful opportunities for people of color, but I had never heard anyone make an overt case in favor of assimilation – particularly at an organization that promoted diversity in its mission statements and messaging. Granted, many people of color on our team had grown suspicious of those statements, suspecting that the organization wanted our racial diversity without our diversity of thought and culture.”

62. “I had worked for a number of organizations that struggled to create meaningful opportunities for people of color, but I had never heard anyone make an overt case in favor of assimilation – particularly at an organization that promoted diversity in its mission statements and messaging. Granted, many people of color on our team had grown suspicious of those statements, suspecting that the organization wanted our racial diversity without our diversity of thought and culture.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “I am not impressed that slavery was abolished or that Jim Crow ended. I feel no need to pat America on its back for these “achievements.” This is how it always should have been. Many call it progress, but I do not consider it praiseworthy that only within the last generation did America reach the baseline for human decency.”

63. “I am not impressed that slavery was abolished or that Jim Crow ended. I feel no need to pat America on its back for these “achievements.” This is how it always should have been. Many call it progress, but I do not consider it praiseworthy that only within the last generation did America reach the baseline for human decency.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “I am not a priest for the white soul.”

64. “I am not a priest for the white soul.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “We are capable of building community anywhere – not just at church or at work, but also in the “ethnic” hair care section of stores, in elevators, and other random places where we take the opportunity to simply say, “I see you.”

65. “We are capable of building community anywhere – not just at church or at work, but also in the “ethnic” hair care section of stores, in elevators, and other random places where we take the opportunity to simply say, “I see you.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “For only by being truthful about how we got here can we begin to imagine another way.”

66. “For only by being truthful about how we got here can we begin to imagine another way.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “It’s so easy to believe the pretty pictures on the website filled with racial diversity, to buy in to the well-crafted statements of purpose, to enjoy being invited into the process of “being part of the change.” The role of a bridge builder sounds appealing until it becomes clear how often that bridge is your broken back.”

67. “It’s so easy to believe the pretty pictures on the website filled with racial diversity, to buy in to the well-crafted statements of purpose, to enjoy being invited into the process of “being part of the change.” The role of a bridge builder sounds appealing until it becomes clear how often that bridge is your broken back.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “So what are you going to do differently?”

68. “So what are you going to do differently?”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “Ultimately, the reason we have not yet told the truth about this history of Black and white America is that telling an ordered history of this nation would mean finally naming America’s commitment to violent, abusive, exploitative, immoral white supremacy, which seeks the absolute control of Black bodies. It would mean doing something about it.”

69. “Ultimately, the reason we have not yet told the truth about this history of Black and white America is that telling an ordered history of this nation would mean finally naming America’s commitment to violent, abusive, exploitative, immoral white supremacy, which seeks the absolute control of Black bodies. It would mean doing something about it.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “I was more afraid of my own rage than I realized.”

70. “I was more afraid of my own rage than I realized.”

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Austin Channing Brown Quote: “The moment Black Americans achieved freedom from enslavement, America could have put to death the idea of Black inferiority. But whiteness was not prepared to sober up from the drunkenness of power over another people group. Whiteness was not ready to give up the ability to control, humiliate, or do violence to any Black body in the vicinity – all without consequence.”

71. “The moment Black Americans achieved freedom from enslavement, America could have put to death the idea of Black inferiority. But whiteness was not prepared to sober up from the drunkenness of power over another people group. Whiteness was not ready to give up the ability to control, humiliate, or do violence to any Black body in the vicinity – all without consequence.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “Many call it progress, but I do not consider it praiseworthy that only within the last generation did America reach the baseline for human decency.”

72. “Many call it progress, but I do not consider it praiseworthy that only within the last generation did America reach the baseline for human decency.”

— Austin Channing Brown

Austin Channing Brown Quote: “A lack of confrontation had done her no favors.”

73. “A lack of confrontation had done her no favors.”

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