No. How dare you . You were the guardian of throne and country. And now I, having cast aside my life for you, find the Dora Milaje and their capatain turned jambazi! What has come of you, Aneka? What...
Now at night, I held you and a great fear, wide as all our American generations, took me. Now I personally understood my father and the old mantra - 'Either I can beat him or the police.' I understood...
Ororo, I asked you to come because you are my best friend, and because... Because some things, my king, are easier to annual than others.
Our current politics tell you that should you fall victim to such an assault and lose your body, it must somehow be your fault. Trayvon Martin’s hoodie got him killed. Jordan Davis’s loud music did th...
Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, declared Mississippi as it left the Union, the greatest material interest of the world.
Over the next twelve years, I came to regard Obama as a skilled politician, a deeply moral human being, and one of the greatest presidents in American history. He was phenomenal—the most agile interpr...
Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it. The fact is that despite their dre...
Perhaps after a serious discussion and debate - the kind that HR 40 proposes - we may find that the country can never fully repay African Americans. But we stand to discover much about ourselves in su...
Perhaps being named black had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named black was just someone’s name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to pariah.
Perhaps that was, is, the hope of the movement: to awaken the Dreamers, to rouse them to the facts of what their need to be white, to talk like they are white, to think that they are white, which is t...
Poetry aims for an economy of truth - loose and useless words bust be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply...
Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts.
Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded,
Power was what mattered, and what characterized the differences between black and white America was not a difference in work ethic, but a system engineered to place one on top of the other
Racism was banditry, pure and simple. And the banditry was not incidental to America, it was essential to it.
Racism—the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them—
Sell cigarettes without the proper authority and your body can be destroyed.
Seven years after I saw the pictures of those doors, I received my first adult passport. I wish I had come to it sooner.
She also taught me to write, by which I mean not simply organizing a set of sentences into a series of paragraphs, but organizing them as a means of investigation
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