Clint Smith : (8)

" Education is a human right – a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. " - Clint Smith

" School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration. " - Clint Smith

" Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. " - Clint Smith

" Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. " - Clint Smith

" Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it. " - Clint Smith

" Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities. " - Clint Smith

" My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn’t steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn’t make a memory of this skin. " - Clint Smith

" I’ve been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. " - Clint Smith