“We someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast man or the white man, it is like a fisherman casting a net into the water. He keeps only the one or two fish that he needs to feed himself and puts the rest in the water, thinking that their lives will go back to normal. No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free.” FreedomHistoryHuman NatureSlavery Book:Homegoing Source: Homegoing
“Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.” MindSlaveryRacism In AmericaSlavery In The United StatesBlack Man Book:Homegoing Source: Homegoing