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“One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....”
Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from the long war against the black body, is not forged overnight. This is the practiced habit of jabbing out one's eyes and forgetting the work of one's hands.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Alex Haley
“...only guilt admitted accepts truth.”
Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

James Baldwin
“But, in the end, it is the threat of universal extinction hanging over all the world today that changes, totally and forever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man’s history. We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?”
Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

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