“Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.” –B. B. King
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”- Aretha Franklin
“Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.”- Octavia E. Butler
“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.”-Shirley Chisholm
“We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.”-Stacey Abrams
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”- James Baldwin
