Jolanda Scott

“And I’ve come to see that the movement from racist to antiracist is always ongoing—it requires understanding and snubbing racism based on biology, ethnicity, body, culture, behavior, color, space, and class. And beyond that, it means standing ready to fight at racism’s intersections with other bigotries.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“If our mother so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance?”
― Rebecca Skloot, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Was it? It helps to dig back into the origins of Ebonics. Enslaved Africans formulated new languages in nearly every European colony in the Americas, including African American Ebonics, Jamaican Patois, Haitian Creole, Brazilian Calunga, and Cubano. In every one of these countries, racist power—those in control of government, academia, education, and media—has demeaned these African languages as dialects, as “broken” or “improper” or “nonstandard” French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, or English. Assimilationists have always urged Africans in the Americas to forget the “broken” languages of our ancestors and master the apparently “fixed” languages of Europeans—to speak “properly.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Cone looked at Dad with equal seriousness and responded: “A Christian is one who is striving for liberation.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist