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On television I caught glimpses of the heroes of the Black Power movement. Muhammad Ali, Stokley Carmichael and Yuri Kochiyama were all preaching about the condition of black people, and Angela Davis was still regarded as the most dangerous person in the USA.
Benjamin Zephaniah • The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Being twice as excellent as white folk will get you half of what they get. Being anything less will get you hell.”
Kiese Laymon • Heavy: An American Memoir
It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complace
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all. The conundrum of color is the inheritance of every American, be he/she legally or actually Black or White. It is a fearful inheritance, for which untold multitudes, long ago, sold their birthright. Multitudes are doing so, until to
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief when they knew that their boys were being shipped out of the south, to do battle overseas. It was, perhaps, like feeling that the most dangerous part of a dangerous journey had been passed and that now, even if death should come, it would come with honor and without the complicity of their c
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
In 1964, eight years before I was born, my family moved from Titusville to Ensley. Ours was the third Black family on the block. And the last White man on our block, which changed from White to Black across a few years, diligently kept up a sign that read “Zoned for whites.” Each morning on the way to school, the neighborhood boys kicked it down. E
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Oublions Marlon Brando et son numéro raté de Panthère Noire. Ce qu'il importe de dire, c'est qu'il y a parmi les Blancs des inadaptés psychologiques, des misfits, qui utilisent la tragédie et la revendication des Afro-Américains afin de transférer leur névrose personnelle hors du domaine psychique, sur un terrain social qui la légitime. Ceux qui ca
... See moreRomain Gary • Chien blanc (French Edition)
It is the ability of black people to express the tragic side of social existence but also their refusal to be imprisoned by its limitations.