“Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.”
“Whether they are able to enact it as lived practice or not, many white folks active in anti-racist struggle today are able to acknowledge that all whites (as well as everyone else within white supremacist culture) have learned to overvalue “whiteness” even as they simultaneously learn to devalue blackness.”
“Friendship is ageless. It is the spirit we should like and care for, not the shell that encases it.”
“At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.”
“Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.”
“To live is learn, and to learn is to live. Live. Learn.”