Dwight

“noblesse oblige,”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“In our homes, in our churches, wherever two or three are gathered, there is a discussion of what is best to do. Must we remain in the South or go elsewhere? Where can we go to feel that security which other people feel? Is it best to go in great numbers or only in several families? These and many other things are discussed over and over. — A COLORED WOMAN IN ALABAMA, 1902”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“We are the true friends of the negroes, always have been, and always will be, as long as they stay in the definite place we have provided for them.”
― Anthony S. Pitch, The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town

“David L. Cohn, in the 1935 book God Shakes Creation, wrote that, for a colored man without a white sponsor, “his fate is in the lap of the gods.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration