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“One strange feature of Blackness is how often it is treated as static. Like Black just is as it will ever be. But displaced and misnamed people are ever evolving out of necessity. The truth is the condition is like waterways, blood vessels, circuits.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“Black watching, worry, caution, are wise because what if the ones holding out their hands don't, in fact, shake yours warmly, but instead snatch you into snares? And you lose your balance, gone in an instant, like a fly in Venus flytrap.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“It's freedom we're seeking, after all; it's not a war or a board game in which we easily declare victory or defeat.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“You see? Blue is a portal. Our ancestors have worked so hard from the other side to keep us going; this is how we tend to them in return.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People