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I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

Daniel Marques
I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn't that enough to tell? Isn't it all you need to know?

Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn't that enough to tell? Isn't it all you need to know?

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes - - believes with all its heart - - that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their...

Colson Whitehead The Underground...
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes - - believes with all its heart - - that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.

Seeing that the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend. In "Letter from...

Timothy B. Tyson The Blood of...
Seeing that the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend. In "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. writes that his worst enemies are not the members of Citizens' Councils or the Ku Klux Klan but "the white moderate" who claims to support the goals of the movement but deplores its methods of protest and deprecates its timetable for change: "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."10

It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments we spent readying the mask, or readying ourselves to accept...

Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the...
It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments we spent readying the mask, or readying ourselves to accept half as much, could not be recovered.
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