My death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of race, imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment of invisible gods.
You deserved so much more, little flower. You deserved a Wakanda that cherished you. But this is the Wakanda we have. And while the Midnight Angels breathe, I swear to you... they shall all pay.
Would rather live white than live free.
Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? Bellow quipped. Tolstoy was white, and so Tolstoy mattered, like everything else that was white mattered.
When presidential candidate Barack Obama presented himself to the black community, he was not to be believed. It strained credulity to think that a man sporting the same rigorously managed haircut as...
What I want you to know is that this is not your fault, even if it is ultimately your responsibility.
We could not get out. The ground we walked was trip-wired. The air we breathed was toxic. The water stunted our growth. We could not get out.
Toute ma vie, j'avais entendu des gens dire à leurs filles et leurs garçons noirs d'être deux fois meilleurs, ce qui revient à dire accepte d'avoir deux fois moins. Ces paroles étaient prononcées sur...
The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own.
The truth of us was always that you were our ring.
The robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments.
The people who must believe they are white can never be your measuring stick.
The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs.
The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.
The changes [in my life] have taught me how to best exploit that singular gift of study, to question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps m...
The Struggle is in your name, Samori—you were named for Samori Touré, who struggled against French colonizers for the right to his own black body.
The Earth is not our creation. It has no respect for us. It has no use for us.
Some days I would take the train into Manhattan. There was so much money everywhere, money flowing out of bistros and cafes, money pushing the people at incredible speeds, up the wide avenues, money d...
Sell cigarettes without the proper authority and your body can be destroyed.
Regarder cette réalité en face est douloureux. Mais notre lexique tout entier - relations interraciales, discriminations, justice raciale, profilage racial, privilège blanc et même suprématie blanche...