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Beyonce utilizes her work to embrace independence and confidence. Her work empowers her listeners to be themselves and to stand up for themselves.

“I see it, I want it, I stunt, yellow-bone it. I dream it, I work hard, I grind ‘til I own it. I twirl on my haters, albino alligators.”

Formation-Beyonce

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This movie captured one of many struggles MLK and his people went through in order to make history and progress. This photo really stands out, showing the dynamic of power and inequality just through the cop and woman shown above. The dull tones really darken the feeling you get when you look at this scene.

“That means protest! That means march! That means disturb the peace! That means jail! That means risk! That is hard!”

- MLK while talking to the congregation from the Movie Selma

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In addition, hashtags have the intertextual potential to link a broad range of tweets on a given topic or disparate topics as part of an intertextual chain, regardless of whether, from a given perspective, these tweets have anything to do with one another. Thus, a tweet in support of Ferguson protestors and a tweet in support of Officer Darren Wilson could both be coded and filed under #Ferguson. Moreover, a tweet about racial disparity in Missouri, such as “racism lives here,” and one about a night out on the town in St. Louis could both be marked #STL 

#Ferguson,  Bonilla and Rosa

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People love to claim, you have to be calm as you protest, you have to speak in a way that the powerful will respect, you have to dress in a way that doesn’t alienate people. But following such rules does not matter. There’s no right way to protest your own dehumanization and your community’s destruction, especially when your country insists that there’s nothing violent, uncivilized, and un-American about how it routinely dehumanizes and destroys certain populations.

-“Low Standard for Whites. That’s What’s Killing Us,” Mitchell

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American Oxygen, Rihanna

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“Here’s the thing the mayor doesn’t understand: As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say that there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.”

- John Oliver

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Yes and you want it to stop. You want the child pushed to the ground to be seen, to be helped to his feet, to be brushed off by the person who did not see him, has never seen him, has perhaps never seen anyone who is not a reflection of himself.

From Citizen, Rankine

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I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn’t just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it’s violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you

-Rankine, Blackness as the Second Person

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. what does it taste like: a takeout box between my legs.plastic bag lady. flimsy white fork to snap in half. dispose of me.

-  Choi “To the Man who Shouted I Like Pork Fried Rice at me on the Street”

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Dear White People

President Fletcher: Racism is over in America. The only people who are thinking about it are, I dunno, Mexicans probably.

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- Dear White Peopel

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Kanye points out that the road to success includes having to sacrifice things to get there. You’re so glued to achieving the “american dream,” (success and money,) that you begin to define your sense of worth by the things you own. Kanye West tells the audience the self battle with consumerism and fame will lead to people doing the lows in order to achieve their highs. Overall, Kanye explains the affects of materialism and admits to doing these things himself, and he tries to explain the constant battle with materialism is a waste of time because one day, when it all falls down, it’ll all feel like nothing. Filling your house and body with temporary happiness will but worthless one day when you don’t like the person you’ve become. 

“It seems we living the american dream But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to riches and diamond rings “

All Falls Down - Kanye West 

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Richael Faithful, #BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk: Then, suddenly, racism becomes a crisis that revives the “national conversation on race.” It is a bitter irony that Black folk must be beaten, scarred, murdered, for their lives to matter to white America.

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Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, Ross Gay The books you're always reading? Don't you know the size of your library is in inverse proportion to the size of your penis?

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Couldn't afford a car so she named her daughter Alexus -Kanye, All Falls Down

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And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning

Audre Lorde, “A Lithany for Survival” (via dgreer8)

Lorde uses basic occurrences, like the sun rising, to portray constant fear and instability felt by marginalized people.  

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