“Change does not occur with backlash—at least any change worth having—and that backlash is an indicator that the change is…powerful…” – Alicia Garza, ‘Four Hundred Souls’

“‘America is not a blanket but a quilt’…’peace, love, unity, and having fun'”- Bakari Kitwana, quoting Jesse Jackson and KRS-One in ‘Four Hundred Souls’

“The process is still bitterly remembered by Navajos.” – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the United States”

“The Fascist racketeers were no fools. They understood the psychology of their starving victims. Their appeal to them was irresistible.” – Angelo Herndon

“Our vices and our degradation are ever arrayed against us, but our Virtues are passed by unnoticed. From the press and the pulpit with have suffered…” – Editorial Board of ‘Freedom’s Journal,’ 1827

“While some nations vow never to forget, our American battle has always been over what we allow ourselves to remember” – Wesley Lowery, in ‘Four Hundred Souls’

“The hunger to unlearn what so many of us have been taught is pronounced” – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, ‘An Indigenous People’s History of the United States”

“I’m gonna miss the way you violate the English language” – Joshua Marie Wilkinson, ‘Trouble Finds You’

“Any private thrill was like peeing your pants. Dylan knew to be ashamed of the relief.” – Jonathan Letham, ‘The Fortress of Solitude’

“It’s Midwinter Day today a day / To cause the sun to stand still as it will anyway” – Bernadette Mayer, ‘Midwinter Day’