Vanessa

“I don’t think white people identify themselves as white Americans. They think their perspective is objective. They don’t realize they’re always invested in the advancement of white people.”
― Claudia Rankine, The White Card: A Play

“Voting once or even twice for a Black man is not enough to undo years of anti-Black social conditioning. Fear and feelings, especially about racism, have to be managed constantly.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

“I eat white-lady tears for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

“of unresolved grief, large and small, of others assuming that he, beautiful Black person in gorgeous Black body, was born violent and dangerous; this assumption, impossible to hide, manifesting in every word and glance and action, and every word and glance and action ingested and internalized, and it’s unfair and unjust, this sort of death”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water