Deirdre Cross

“There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.”
― Junius Williams, Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.”
― Junius Williams, Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

“Something that is loved is never lost.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved