Mark Z. Danielewski Quote
What I'm about to ask you I'm not asking you because I'm black, though I still reserve the right to make that a big fucking part of whatever the fuck I ask you, because it's the very fucking least I deserve: do you truly believe a young black man growing up on those streets ever had a fair chance of acquiring the conscience determined and cultivated by a class that, while demanding it of everyone, through legislative action denies anyone of lesser privilege access to its creation? Conscience, like everything else true in this life, is not God-given but world-made. And a world that is unequal in its distribution of privilege must accept that the values it manifests are of its own doing.
What I'm about to ask you I'm not asking you because I'm black, though I still reserve the right to make that a big fucking part of whatever the fuck I ask you, because it's the very fucking least I deserve: do you truly believe a young black man growing up on those streets ever had a fair chance of acquiring the conscience determined and cultivated by a class that, while demanding it of everyone, through legislative action denies anyone of lesser privilege access to its creation? Conscience, like everything else true in this life, is not God-given but world-made. And a world that is unequal in its distribution of privilege must accept that the values it manifests are of its own doing.