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“Ultimately, the reason we have not yet told the truth about this history of Black and white America is that telling an ordered history of this nation would mean finally naming America’s commitment to violent, abusive, exploitative, immoral white supremacy, which seeks the absolute control of Black bodies. It would mean doing something about it.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites,” Enlightenment philosopher David Hume wrote in 1753. “There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white…. Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries and ages, if nature had not made an original distinction between these breeds of men.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“But reconciliation is not about white feelings. It’s about diverting power and attention to the oppressed, toward the powerless. It’s not enough to dabble at diversity and inclusion while leaving the existing authority structure in place. Reconciliation demands more.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“For only by being truthful about how we got here can we begin to imagine another way.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness