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Pride, Resilience, and Breaking Stereotypes

Say I'm Dead, E. Dolores Johnson, Copyright 2020, Chapter 8, Paragraph 4

"We, the talented tenth, would become all we could be, and lead our people's progress."

Pride, Resilience, and Breaking Stereotypes is a short reenactment of chapter 8 of Say I’m Dead, I am Somebody. The short film follows Dolores Johnson, a young biracial Black woman as she embarks on her identity journey at Howard University and Harvard University.

Direct Quotes from Chapter 8 of Say I'm Dead by E. Dolores Johnson, Copyright 2020:

  • “We, the talented tenth, would become all we could be, and lead our people's progress. His message was as electrifying as the fact that he, the distinguished university president, was also black.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 4)
  • “So began my growth as a self-aware, proud black person, the hallmark of Howard's black mecca education.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 7)
  • “Who straightened the natural curl and kink out of their hair as wanting to be like white people.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 6)
  • “In-between hair was one of those constant reminders that while we said we were black, our biology showed we were mixed.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 9)
  • “I felt like the same isolated black kid on my first day of high school honors classes.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 35)
  • “‘Congratulations,’ he said ‘Congratulations for what?’ ‘Didn't you hear? You're not a bastard anymore.’” (Chapter 8, paragraphs 12-14)
  • “Had people seen me as illegitimate all my life and I didn't know it?” (Chapter 8, paragraph 21)
  • “What white supremacists dreamed up such a law in the first place? Somebody out to protect their racial purity, that's who.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 20)
  • “You keep your head up, hear? Don't you let nobody, and nothing, stop you.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 45)
  • “These older black people put their hopes for the race in people like me, just as Howard University had.” (Chapter 8, paragraph 48)

Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/1047881510?share=copy

DMU Timestamp: January 23, 2025 13:46





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