Randall Kennedy > Quotes

“This suspicion [selling out] often rubs up against another tendency in Black America: the habit of celebrating any promotion by a fellow Black as a sign of collective advancement.”
― Randall Kennedy, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

“Diagnosticians of society should play their mission coldly and clinically. They should not be compelled to minister to morale. That should be left to coaches, therapists, clerics, or the like. If a commentator perceives a situation to be hopeless, he should say so.”
― Randall Kennedy, Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture