"Do you know our people
slept, laying spoon fashion in the filthy holds of slave ships, in their own
and in each other’s excrement, and urine, and menstrual flow so that you could
live two hundred years later?
Do you know that?
Do you know our people
stood on auction blocks, so that you could live?
When's the last time anyone told you, how important you are?"
-Dr. Maya Angelou
(From Dave Chappelle Maya Angelou Iconoclasts 4 of 4 2006, time 6:20)
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