This Week…

“A riot is the language of the unheard.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I remember once, actually the first race I ran. I fell.”

–Usain Bolt

“‘Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

–DaShanne Stokes

“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”

–James Weldon Johnson

“Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”

–Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”

–Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

–Muriel Rukeyser

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

–Søren Kierkegaard

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”

–James Baldwin

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

–T.S. Eliot