"Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come. T…"

"On June 19, 1865 — nearly nine decades after our Nation’s founding, and more than 2 years after President Lincoln sig…"

"I went to Galveston, Texas, in part, because I wanted to spend time with people who were the actual descendants of th…"

"Over the course of decades, she has made it her mission to see that this day came. It was almost a singular mission. …"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

"I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't politically defend it."