“A line between white and black had been drawn in my life. I straddled that line with an ache I had no name for. An ache I now understand as identity crisis.” RacismBlack Lives MatterDifferenceCultural DiversityRace In America Book:Wounds Source: Wounds
“I brought Grand Rapids with me to Newaygo. I brought difference. I was used to a fluid concept of harmony. I was used to diversity. Homogenous harmony has walls. As a fourteen-year-old boy in Newaygo, I felt those walls.” EqualityBlack Lives MatterDifferenceBlack LoveRacial Inequality Book:Wounds Source: Wounds