“The hafts of the tools were stained black with th sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike.”

“Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of working with them revealed that they could want to be with us (even to be our sexual partners) without divesting of white supremacist thinking about blackness. We saw that they were often unable to let go the idea that whites are somehow better, smarter, more likely to be intellectuals, and even that they were kinder than black folks.”

“Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.”

“Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.”

“Jesus was not white, hey, he was a black man. Like our pig man, Mzwaki. All the Bible people were dark people.”

“Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.”