"This country is a land mass that could be called anything, and for people to act like this is some kind of sacred territory is an insanity. It's just a bunch of people trying to live together, and if we're not going to be part of a dream of equality --a part of a dream of that which is the best for us, the idea that people help one another-- if we're not going to do that, then this land mass doesn't any more deserve to be revered than anything else. All it is is where we are at this particular point, and it seems to me that it woud be important and necessary that people respect not the reality but the concept, the dream of the possibilities."
- Nikki Giovanni, in her commentary on Same in Blues by Langston Hughes
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