Deon Cole Quotes

Much of the time at Harvard, some of us had to modify our behavior and our speech and be careful about not perpetuating any Black stereotypes, to speak only what was then called “proper English.” Today the Black comedian Deon Cole calls it “managing your Blackness” to avoid frightening the whites. We were all adept at it, but it could grow tiring; at the Black Table we could be ourselves and quit “managing our Negro-ness.