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Emily Raboteau
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“That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin — that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.”
Emily Raboteau (born 1976) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Professor's Daughter (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2004), ch. 1 (p. 17) — Bernie-ism 15:2
“Slavery is not the only story about black people. It’s only a small story! Don’t they know that if tomorrow a slave ship arrived at Elmina to carry us to America, so many Ghanaians would climb on board that this ship would sink to the bed of the ocean from our weight?" He laughed. I couldn’t help laughing myself. But who was the butt of the joke?”
Emily Raboteau (born 1976) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Searching for Zion (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013), ch. 15 (p. 223) — Elolo loq.