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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.