"If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table."

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I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.

— Shelby Steele