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“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about....Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”
― M.K. Asante, Buck: A Memoir

“Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.”
― M.K. Asante, Buck: A Memoir

“Whiteness centers itself in the mirror that we all look into.”
― Ian Williams, Disorientation: Being Black in the World