Lamar Moore

“I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes the hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.”
― Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education

“We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.”
― Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education