Jolanda Scott

“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

“Despite herself, despite what she'd done, she decided she wanted Rowan to call her milady at least once every day.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime. I was a dupe, a chump who saw the ongoing struggles of Black people on MLK Day 2000 and decided that Black people themselves were the problem. This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist