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Number one. First, we need to see ourselves. I mean, really, truly, deeply see ourselves for who and what we are in order to believe in ourselves. I’m a child of the ’60s, and that was hard. Oh. In the third grade, I tested out of public school into a fancy private school where the only Black person I saw every day was the one who looked back at me in the mirror. I was by myself, and I was all alone. And the things that were said to me, and I'm not talking about just the kids, but the adults, too. And when I would come home from school crying the ugly cry, my immigrant Jamaican mother would sit me down in front of the mirror and ask me, "Do you see an N-word? Do you see a liar? Do you see a big-lip monkey? No! So dry your eyes. And when you go back to school, remember, you are rubber, they are glue. And every ignorant thing they say about you bounces off of you and sticks to them."
第一。 首先，我们得看清自己。 确确实实地看清自己， 深刻地认识我们是谁，是什么， 才能相信自己。 我生于 60 年代，这很难。 唔。 读三年级时， 我从公立学校转入了 一所高级的私立学校， 我每天见到的唯一一个黑人 就是镜子里看着我的那一位。 我只有我自己，孤身一人。 那些别人和我说的话， 不仅是孩子， 还有大人说的话。 当我放学了回家， 哭得梨花带雨时， 我那来自牙买加的移民母亲 让我坐在镜子前， 问我： “你看到那个 N 开头的词 （“黑人”的蔑称）了吗？ 你看到了一个骗子吗？ 你看到厚嘴唇猴子了吗？ 没有！ 所以擦干眼泪。 等你回学校的时候，记住， 你是块橡皮， 他们是胶水。 他们对你说的无知之词， 都会反弹，贴在他们身上。”