One Drop Quotes

“There are so many intersections in each individual’s being that to define ourselves only by race is to exclude so many things.”
― Yaba Blay, One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race

“So it’s important that we have a much more capacious conceptualization of history and the effect of history on the present, and that we not see race as something we have to get over, but instead as something we have to engage and confront and learn to move through somehow.”
― Yaba Blay, One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race

“My whole thing is about conquering fear. And that’s the core thing when it comes to race and to every disease of society. It’s fear that’s the opposite of love, and that’s what’s lacking in this society the most.”
― Yaba Blay, One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race