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Atlanta is over 50 percent Black, it is luminous with Black celebrity and iconography, but the unbearable Whiteness of its being—and by that I mean a very old social order grown up from plantation economies into global corporations—still leaves most Black Atlantans vulnerable. No matter how it might look, Atlanta still comes out white as snow.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
For the Prophet had said that when God created men he lifted dust from all parts of the earth, and some was black and some red and some white, but all men were made of that dust and all were therefore brothers.
James A. Michener • The Source: A Novel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • "The Danger of a Single Story"
than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
“For the first hundred years of American history it was illegal to teach blacks how to read. These days, people still ridicule them for being ignorant.”
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
she herself was “color blind” and saw only what was in a person’s heart.
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
He looked at the human beings he had chained up and noted that they seemed to be the type of people who wore chains. So unlike other people. Frighteningly unlike! Later, in his cotton fields, he had them whipped and then made them go back to work and thought, They can’t possibly feel as we do. You can whip them and they go back to work. And having
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