Hope

“Peter H. Wood wrote in a 1999 paper on slavery and denial, "After all, as several eminent academics have recently reminded us, 'nations need to control their national memory, because nations keep their shape by shaping their citizens' understanding of the past.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“Eight in ten Black people would not be in the United States were it not for the institution of slavery in a society founded on ideals of freedom.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“It was a freedom that understood what it was against but not what it was for, a malnourished and mean kind of freedom that kept you out of chains but did not provide bread or shelter or a means to get ahead.”
― Matthew Desmond, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“Words, I explained, were not bad in and of themselves, but carried histories that require attentiveness and sensitivity.”
― Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay