We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it.– Gerald Sider.
~ Michelle Alexander
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?
~ Amandla Stenberg
A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.
~ S. Kelley Harrell
No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
~ S. Alice Callahan