And then I understood that the answer is yes, yes yes: I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute … - June Jordan

I believe that suffering does not confer virtue upon the victim. Hence it is possible that the slave will become the slaveholder and that the victim will become the executioner.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.