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This means in the case of the American Negro, born in that glittering republic…and in the moment you are born, since you don’t know any better, every stick and stone and every face is white, and since you have not yet seen a mirror, you
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“There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“the only genuine, long-range solution for what has happened lies in an attack—mounted at every level—upon the conditions that breed despair and violence.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“In the decade following Nat Turner’s rebellion, as rural areas struggled to suppress the enslaved population, Southern cities concluded that the only way to protect their residents from uprisings in surrounding areas was to invest in armed patrols.60 In most urban areas, after establishing a city patrol, officials would also build a town jail and a punishment site, often referred to as “the cage,” where suspicious enslaved people could be incarcerated and tortured.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“The heart of the wise lay quiet like the peaceful waters.”
― The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts
― The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts
“As Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1892 autobiography, “The story of the master never wanted for narrators. The masters, to tell their story, had at call all the talent and genius that wealth and influence could command. They have had their full day in court. Literature, theology, philosophy, law and learning have come willingly to their service, and if condemned, they have not been condemned unheard.” Our part, as Douglass said, “has been to tell the story of the slave.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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