“ Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot. Tim Wise
“ Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue! Steven Magee
“ When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites a worthless black boy wa… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it? Simon S. Tam
“ I heard the fear in the first music I ever knew, the music that pumped from boom boxes full of grand boast and bluster. The boys who stood out on Garrison and Liberty up on Park Heights loved this mus… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ I began to notice something strange about the nature of incarceration; in particular, its imposition on the minds and bodies of the imprisoned, promoting a number of inmates to take personal responsib… Eric Stanley
“ All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system. Malcolm X
