“America understands itself as God’s handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Our mothers always said to look hard at the things of this world that are owies on the eyes because they will put more colors in your inner rainbow.”
― Bunny
― Bunny
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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