Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.