“Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.” RaceRacismAfrican AmericansBlacksSlursEpithetsRachel Dolezal Book:The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
“I was ten when Mike Smiley, half-Indian, skinny, brown-skinned, brought the word jigaboo to school like lunch, or the flu, fed him by his adopted white father who said that's what we called them then. By noon it was done--everyone had a name for what had been bothering them, some thing utterly human as hate.” ChildrenKidsPoetryHatePoemRacismAfrican AmericansBlacksInsultsEpithets Book:Brown: Poems Source: Brown: Poems