It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

— William A. Henry III

Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed, either; the intent behind it was not rooted in a desire to help black people attain equal standing in society. It was riot insurance. Furthermore, it was a financial incentive for blacks to stay in their own communities and out of the suburbs. (183)

— Tanner Colby

May my children, fear, know and walk with God.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate terror in white America. Perhaps it does, in the most individual sense. But in the collective sense, what this country really fears is black respectability, Good Negro Government. It applauds, even celebrates, Good Negro Government in the threatening abstract—The Cosby Show, for instance. But when it becomes clear that Good Negro Government might, in any way, empower actual Negroes over actual whites, then the fear sets in, the affirmative-action charges begin, and birtherism emerges.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.

— Christina Engela

We are the chosen, called and blessed people

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We will never fail. We shall fulfil the dream.

— Lailah Gifty Akita