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The customary way for white people to think about the topic of race — and it is only a topic to white people — is to ask, “How would it be if I were … - Fran Lebowitz
" "The customary way for white people to think about the topic of race — and it is only a topic to white people — is to ask, “How would it be if I were black?”…..
The way to approach it, I think, is…to seriously consider what it is like to be white.
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Frances Ann Lebowitz (born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene.
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