This Week…

“To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Seeing is not always believing.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”

–Albert Camus

“I wish they would only take me as I am.”

–Vincent Van Gogh

“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