"My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world."

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We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.

— Fannie Lou Hamer