“ To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate. Tennessee West
“ What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell,… Darnell Lamont Walker
“ You see, he said turning to Mr Norton, he has eyes and ears and a good distended African nose, but he fails to understand the simple facts of life. Understand. Understand? It’s worse than that. He reg… Ralph Ellison
“ When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin. Darnell Lamont Walker
“ Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white r… Harold Cruse
“ In most black people, there is a South Side, a sense of home, that never leaves, and yet to compete in the world, we have to go forth. So we learn to code-switch and become bilingual. We save our Timb… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice DaShanne Stokes
