Ella Harris

“That Trump ran and won on identity politics is beyond Lilla’s powers of conception. Whatever appeals to the white working class is ennobled.
What appeals to black workers, and all others outside the tribe, is dastardly identitarianism. All politics are identity politics—except the politics of white people….”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“You cannot have a non-political African American Studies course because its whole invention, its raison d’être came out of political struggle.”
― Robin D.G. Kelley

“Incarceration does not heal, make us safer, or positively transform individuals, harm, or our society. Quite the contrary. Incarceration destroys humans, families, communities, genera tions, and society. Incarceration makes accountability and repair for harm more difficult to achieve and perpetuates violence. We must create the conditions that bring forth a world where incarceration has no place.”
― Jaimee Swift, We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

“The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more respectable.
The essence of American racism is disrespect.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy