Yaba Blay Quotes

There are so many intersections in each individual’s being that to define ourselves only by race is to exclude so many things.

I don’t think Blackness is something that you can define verbally with words. It’s something that you are.

So it’s important that we have a much more capacious conceptualization of history and the effect of history on the present, and that we not see race as something we have to get over, but instead as something we have to engage and confront and learn to move through somehow.

My whole thing is about conquering fear. And that’s the core thing when it comes to race and to every disease of society. It’s fear that’s the opposite of love, and that’s what’s lacking in this society the most.