Imani Perry

"I am American. That means something to me, some common ground with others of this soil, even as the country feels irredeemably racist and maybe not worth saving."

- Imani Perry

"By now we know that the flower children, the yippies, the gay rights organizers, and the second-wave feminists were all inspired by the voices of the freedom movement. But the ripple is much bigger. In each successive generation, expression has pushed past existing boundaries, arguing that their insistence is more than a matter of style or taste, but rather that it is a matter of freedom."

- Imani Perry