They Come at Knight Quotes

“It was the thing about loss and trauma. Years might smooth out their rough edges, but their ghost effects remained, just outside the peripheral vision, waiting to haunt again.”
― Yasmin Angoe, They Come at Knight

“They don’t want everyone to succeed, only themselves. Why is that?”
― Yasmin Angoe, They Come at Knight

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Yasmin Angoe, They Come at Knight

“But when it comes to people who might make the Tribe bigger and better, people who never give any of us Africans the time of day were it not for our bank accounts and stock options, your father can’t do enough. He always wants to make friends with the wrong kind of people. We don’t have time for friends. We have only ourselves, and history has proved there are people who would rather we be enslaved and indebted to them than be their equals. It’s only a matter of time before it happens. So we get respect by force and by dollar.”
― Yasmin Angoe, They Come at Knight

“I was listening to this discord between Black Americans and Black Londoners, or Africans, and I didn’t understand why they all couldn’t realize that Black people as a whole have been treated as less-than everywhere they are. They’ve been conditioned to believe they were second- or third-class citizens, to accept the privilege of others over their lack of as the norm.” “Or no citizen at all.” “Exactly. Sometimes I wonder if they all know we’re in this fight together.”
― Yasmin Angoe, They Come at Knight

“It’s no different here or in London, you know? I was listening to this discord between Black Americans and Black Londoners, or Africans, and I didn’t understand why they all couldn’t realize that Black people as a whole have been treated as less-than everywhere they are. They’ve been conditioned to believe they were second- or third-class citizens, to accept the privilege of others over their lack of as the norm.”
― Yasmin Angoe, They Come at Knight