American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really arent huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. – Paula Cole
