"My book is an attempt to say that Black dignity is inherent...that all people of color have an inherent dignity and we choose to either recognize that dignity or attack that dignity, but those are the only two options. And when we do not analyze and interrogate white culture, almost every time it is in and of itself an attack on the dignity of people of color. Why? Because 'whiteness' was formed in opposition to people of color."​

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Austin Channing Brown