Garrett

“The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“It is an uncomfortable and unavoidable fact that everyone who voted for Donald Trump- all 62,984,825 of them- made the decision to elect a man who bragged about sexual assault, attacked a federal judge for being Mexican and grieving Gold Star parents who were muslim, and has a long and well-documented history of racial discrimination in his businesses. That doesn't mean every Trump supporter approved of those things, but at a minimum they accepted or overlooked them.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“And give no damns that the white kids be looking at us like we don't belong at that school, in their lunchroom, sticking tongs into their salad bars. Fuck no. Don't even know they're in the presence of royalty when they ask, How come you all sit together? without checking their own all-white tables.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone