Joyce

“I already know why police chose over, and over, and over to intimidate, and attack, and harm, and kill Black people in my city, in Canada. It has nothing to do with any single incident, any presumed provocation or threat, or misunderstanding. The police are just doing their job. A central responsibility of policing has always been to discipline Black people on behalf of the ruling class.”
― Desmond Cole

“Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be
asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

“We demand justice and we get process.”
― Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

“What he was saying was of no importance in itself, it had all been said before so many times, repeated parrot-like but with an air of acute perception and originality by one person after another, in one country after another, all the way down through history. After all, even Hitler was unable to think up anything really new on the subject of the Jews; he merely said what everybody else had been saying, only of course he said it louder and oftener, and put it a bit more strongly.”
― Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven