Quotes About Thomas Chatterton Williams

I am not renouncing my blackness and going on about my day. I am rejecting the legitimacy of the entire racial construct in which blackness functions as one orienting pole.

The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political, biological or cultural problem. But I want to say that it's at least as much a philosophical and imaginative disaster.

The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters.