“Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines! In the soft light of these serenest skies; From the broad highland region, black with pines, Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise, Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.” LightBeautifulBlackSkyFairsGoldSlaveHillsParadiseRegionsBroadsVirginsRosyPeruvians Author:William C. Bryant
“... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.” BlackDarkFairs Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell
“But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.” PeopleIfsWayLooksCountryHappensDifficultBlackTermWhitePoorClassFairsAccessHorribleBlack PeopleWorking ClassSchoolingDisparityIncarceration Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good. What does my faith say about the fact that a girl can't be a nuclear physicist because she's black and from the inner city? My faith says, no, that's not what God intended. It pulls it back into the public arena the idea that there's got to be something fair for all of us.” IfsShouldDoeIdeasFactsGirlBlackCitiesFairsNuclearArenaPhysicistInner City Author:Jeremiah Wright