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Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism - the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy...

Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the...
Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism - the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them - inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men.

This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.

James Baldwin The Fire Next...
This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

Joseph Conrad Heart of...

As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss...

Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life...

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

Alice Walker In Search of Our...

Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For...

Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

William Faulkner The Sound and...

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

Jodi Picoult Small Great...

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There is no collective slavery revenge fantasy among black people, but I am certain, if there were one, it would not be about white people, not at all.

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What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

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That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in...

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