Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.