4 quotes
"We were not actors but acted upon. We were not contributors, just recipients. White people enslaved us, and white people freed us. Black people could choose either to take advantage of that freedom or to squander it, as our depictions in the media seemed to suggest so many of us were doing."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Awareness
"If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Faith
"The price of equality, or at least of the promise of an equal society, is vigilance against those who would make government the tool of hierarchy."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Responsibility
"I started teaching myself to contort my rage into more valuable shapes; it doesn't disappear that way, just works for you instead of against you."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Self-improvement