Danielle Small

“Why can’t white people say the N-word?” In this “post-racial” America that is the question I get the most from my white peers. I figure that maybe something has crippled their fingers to the point that they can’t search the many educational websites that exist or are ignorant of the nearest library. Anyway, they see me (often the only person of color they have extended conversations with because of forced circumstances like living situations or extra time between classes) and feel compelled to ask me everything about being black. Who told them that the NAACP knighted me the official black ambassador last month?”
― Danielle Small, Confessions of a Token Black Girl

“Racism is the same, I’m just the one that’s changing. I don’t have it all figured out and never will, but I take solace in the fact that through all the bullying, hate crimes and microaggression, I have only furthered my race education and worked to uncover my identity. Not the identity that is portrayed in media, but what being black means to me. I’ve spent most of my life running away from my blackness, thinking that that was the answer to racism. But now I welcome my blackness and face racism, knowing that it won’t go away and it is something that requires patience and thick skin.”
― Danielle Small, Confessions of a Token Black Girl