A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
种族歧视
Racism
I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
我经常谈论种族问题。自从我从表演学校毕业后，这就是我的工作。但在某种程度上，谈论种族是一个禁忌，这是事实。因为我们很多关于种族的辩论与种族无关，而是与我们愿意看到、不愿意看到和不想看到的东西有关。
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
我在普林斯顿的经历让我比以往任何时候都更加意识到自己的“黑”。我发现，在普林斯顿，无论我的一些白人教授和同学对我有多宽容和开放，有时我觉得自己就像校园里的访客;好像我真的不属于这里。
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
迫害我很容易而不让人感到羞耻。人们很容易诋毁我，把我塑造成一个不遵循“优秀非洲女性”传统的女性，一个受过高等教育的精英主义者，试图向无辜的非洲女性展示非洲男性无法接受的做事方式。
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate. You’ve got to be carefully taught.
你必须学会害怕那些眼睛奇特的人，害怕那些肤色不同的人。你必须认真学习。你必须在一切都太迟之前，在你六岁、七岁或八岁之前，学会憎恨所有你的亲戚所憎恨的人。你必须认真学习。
I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.
我听说了这本书，我说，‘天哪，我一定要读这本书’，我不知道这本书是一位白人女性写的。没有人这样对我说，他们只是说，‘帮助——哦，我的天，你必须读它。“我想，每个人都没有提到那是一位白人女性，因为没有人真的想谈论种族问题。
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
对任何青年来说，最大的伤害莫过于让他感到，因为他属于这个或那个种族，无论他自己的功绩或努力如何，他都会在生活中获得进步。
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
因此，即使是黑人的学校，也必须让他们相信自己的低人一等。
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
那么，为了理解白人至上主义，我们必须摒弃白人可以给任何人自由的错误观念。
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
一个种族的真正价值必须以其女性特征来衡量。
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
我觉得女权运动排斥了黑人女性。你不能在传统的女权主义对话中谈论黑人和女性。
Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.
那些日子非常艰难。我所有的队友都是白人，那是一个不同的时代。我不能和白人球员一起出去吃饭;我只好等着，直到有人把什么东西搬到车上。我们不能住在同一家旅馆里。