13 Quotes by Henry Hampton

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    Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don’t understand what’s been done to you – by your own people and the so-called ‘they’ – you can never get around it.

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    We don’t have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There’s a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it’s not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

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    If you’re black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

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    Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks – people without resources or options.

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