But the reason black people hate black people is ’cause white people made us hate ourselves.” “Come on, man! That ain’t nothin but an excuse. We can think for ourselves now. Slavery been over.” “No it ain’t. Not in our minds. We didn’t start this mess about light skin versus dark skin and all that shit. They started that. We just inherited it.” “But we can’t be victims forever, Charlie. We gotta think for ourselves sometimes. Like you said, we can read now, so we can’t blame white folks for the rest of eternity.”
