Guadalupe Ramirez

“Both the segregationists and the assimilationists think there is something wrong with Black people and that’s why Black people are on the lower and dying end of racial inequity. The assimilationists believe Black people as a group can be changed for the better, and the segregationists do not. The segregationists and the assimilationists are challenged by antiracists. The antiracists say there is nothing wrong or right about Black people and everything wrong with racism. The antiracists say racism is the problem in need of changing, not Black people. The antiracists try to transform racism. The assimilationists try to transform Black people. The segregationists try to get away from Black people.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” —Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Like a fast-moving, heavy train maintains its trajectory without the application of force to the contrary, racism in education becomes indomitable unless it meets with active resistance.”
― Zeus Leonardo, Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education

“the pen is the sword that enables the colonizer to cut the colonized a thousand times.”
― Adrienne D. Dixon, Condition or Process? Researching Race in Education