Bayside Books

There is no such thing as a dangerous racial group. [...] There is the violence of racism — manifest in policy and policing — that fears the Black body. And there is the nonviolence of antiracism that does not fear the Black body, that fears, if anything, the violence of the racism that has been set on the Black body.

Black people are apparently responsible for calming the fears of violent cops in the way women are supposedly responsible for calming the sexual desires of male rapists. If we don't, then we are blamed for our own assaults, our own deaths.

This time, it's me who kisses her. And it's everything. The fireworks, the butterflies—all of it. I get it now. And I can't believe I lived in a world where I didn't get to kiss her whenever I wanted.

I don't believe in fairy tales and love at first sight and all that, but just for a second, I think this girl and those eyes and the way her freckles dot the entire expanse of her face are cute enough to make a believer out of me.

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

To be antiracist is to focus on ending the racism that shapes the mirages, not to ignore the mirages that shape peoples' lives.