Il mondo nero cresceva davanti ai miei occhi, e per la prima volta capivo che quel mondo non era solo il negativo di quello della gente che si crede bianca. L’America Bianca è un’organizzazione schier...
If I could have chosen a flag back then, it would have been embroidered with a portrait of Malcolm X, dressed in a business suit, his tie dangling, one hand parting a window shade, the other holding a...
I wish he'd told me not just of the power of kings, but of the might of the people. I wish he'd warned me that they, too, have secrets. They, too, have mysteries. They, too, possess a power of their o...
I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free.
I was growing, and if I could not name my anguish precisely I still knew there was nothing noble in it.
I was attracted to their guns, because the guns seemed honest. The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language - vio...
I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them. Some year...
I understood slavery as bad and I had a vague sense that it had once been integral to the country and that the dispute over it had somehow contributed to the civil war. But even that partial sense ran...
I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog.
I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.
I have spent much of my studies searching for the right question by which I might fully understand the breach between the world and me. I have not spent my time studying the problem of 'race' - 'race'...
I don't ever want to lose sight of how short my time is here. And I don't ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors,...
I do remember watching Bill Clinton get impeached and Hillary Clinton being accused of killing Vince Foster, he said. And if you ask them, I’m sure they would say, ‘No, actually what you’re experienci...
I did not love it, but I loved it. The fear I felt then was not just the anguish in my gut but the price of seeing the world anew.
I am speaking to you as I always have - as the sober and serious man I have always wanted you to be, who does not apologize for his human feelings, who does not make excuses for his height, his long a...
I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next.
Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in
Her disposition toward life was that of an elite athlete who knows the opponent is dirty and the refs are on the take, but also knows the championship is one game away. She
He's screwing with you, T'Challa. I mean, I have ego, but at least my brilliance exceeds my ego. I'm happy you think so. I heard that. Yes, because I said it. I know. Next time, it'd help you at least...
He is a general at war with his own army. An exhorter of radical beliefs, shrinking from their obvious conclusions. It was so much easier in the lecture hall, the salon, the seminar. When theory need...