Juda Bennett > Quotes

“How could something you had no right to do also be the right thing to do?”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“My child will go through the world chased by a dark shadow of someone else's creation.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“How far do I go back in time to find that moment when I had faith in the world?”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“These women's lives hold their own horrors, but Morrison knows that there are some horrors that have yet to be written down; that have yet to be spoken aloud.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“I realize this may not speak to the experience of other white gay teens, but I have to risk saying this boldly, the closet led me to black music.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“... because the goal in the face of terror is not sanity but rather survival.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“Justice is not guaranteed in the U.S. racial regime.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“My brown babies may as well have come with a warning label... Warning! Blackness may cause death by sudden gunshot wound.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club

“We call on the past to say that there was never a time of innocence, even if there were times of deep denial.”
― Juda Bennett, The Toni Morrison Book Club