I think that’s the kind of relationship between recognition… - Nell Irvin Painter

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I think that’s the kind of relationship between recognition and black women. That you have to be an optimist to think something’s going to work out and just keep trying because if you concentrate on the really awful actual facts of life, then you’ll just crawl into bed and pull the covers over your head.

Nell Irvin Painter

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Nell Irvin Painter (born Nell Elizabeth Irvin August 2, 1942) is an American historian.

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The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down, and so those needs change over time.

This was a new definition. I think there's room in our culture for interesting people who are black and for interesting people who are female and interesting people who are black and female. There's hardly any room to be interesting if you're old.

Just because you say that things in the 21 century are not the same as they were in the 20th century, doesnt mean that you're saying that we're in a post-racial society. We are not in a post-racial society, but things are not like they were in the age of segregation or slavery.

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