Latest Quotes

“To be black in America is to exist in haunting, mundane proximity to death at all moments.”

— Hannah Giorgis, I Am Tired Of Watching Black People Die

“I don’t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem.”

— Roxane Gay, Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering

“Who the hell wants to have a police officer put their hand on them or yell and scream at them? It’s an awful experience. Every black man I know has had this experience. Every one of them. It is hard to believe that the world is your oyster if the police can rough you up without punishment. And when…”

— Roland G. Fryer Jr., Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings

“Protest is this idea of telling the truth in public, and I’ll never be afraid to tell the truth. What I heard in the jail cell and the conversations we had is that the arrests will not stop people from telling the truth, and that people remain as committed to this work today as they were two days ag…”

— Deray Mckesson, Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson on protests and his arrest Video

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)

“Taking on systemic racism—and rebuilding trust between police and citizens—will require contributions from us all.”

— Hillary ClintonVerified account, twitter.com

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”

— James Baldwin, Another Country

“Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise”

— Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

“The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of the m…”

— Lauryn Hill, Days Before Prison Bid, Lauryn Hill Gives "Racist" Rant – For The Best In Hip-Hop News - SOHH.com

“You turn my life into something light, amazing, rainbowed— you put a glint of happiness on everything.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“If I go outside and try to hail a cab and he passes me for the white woman standing right there, that racism is still alive and kicking. And we have to change that. And I'm not blaming the white lady, she needed a cab too.”

— Queen Latifah, Queen Latifah at the 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors: 'Racism Is Still Alive and Kicking'

“It was exhilarating to melt into the crowd like that, to feel his identity dissolving into something bigger and more powerful.”

— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“Black women, we see you. We love you. We are with you and we believe in your leadership.”

— Common, Common Pays Tribute to Diamond Reynolds at the 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors

“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”

— Lucy Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“We can’t affect national narrative, we can’t affect national legislation that comes down and affects local people if local people don’t push back and take a stand about what's happening in local communities,”

— Chelsea Fuller, Black Lives Matter: A primer on what it is and what it stands for

“Mutual love, the crown of bliss.”

— John Milton, Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces

“Because I love you truly, because you love me, too. My very greatest happiness is sharing life with you.”

— Minna Thomas Antrim, Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces

“Deep. Real. Pure. Passionate. What real love should be.”

— Marisa Donnelly, What If We Were Fearless In Love?