black experience quotes

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.