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

"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. …"

"I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody …"

"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."