10 Quotes by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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I was so taken aback by the question that I had to think about my response for a minute. Had I heard what I thought I heard? ... Remembering Zora Neale Hurston's Janie, I felt something inside me fall off the shelf, and I had to go inside and look around to see what it was.
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If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
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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.
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I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
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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].
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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?
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If people are informed they will do the right thing. It’s when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
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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?
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