Briar

“I pictured myself wandering around in the middle of the night, fearing no one, and being oblivious to causing fear...What does it feel like, I wondered, for a Black man to experience such a thing? Freedom? Bliss? Nothing at all? I do not know. I simply, for the life of me, cannot imagine it. Though Lord knows I've tried.”
― Jerald Walker, Magically Black and Other Essays

“Because suddenly what I wanted more than anything for my children was what he had wanted for his - identities formed from within - for our mirrors, in other words, to first and foremost reflect humans.”
― Jerald Walker, Magically Black and Other Essays

“I learned that just because something is one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way, and it doesn’t mean it can’t change. I learned that you don’t need to change the world - you just need to change your small piece of the world.”
― Jasmin Graham

“Subsidies make the unhealthiest food the cheapest. And prices for basic goods are higher in poor neighborhoods. Items sold in bigger packages cost less per ounce but stores in poor areas generally stock only small quantities”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch