How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

by Clint Smith

What is a fence if you can fly right over it?

“I think that history is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory.”

I saw her as an emblem of tenderness, with full recognition that such tenderness was never to be mistaken for docility.