“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.”
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
“The nigger is America's greatest asset and its biggest fear”
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion.”
― A Colony in a Nation
― A Colony in a Nation
“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?”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
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