" When I looked at the white people who were doing this,
consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of
them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people
they were lording it over. But the whites were in control.
We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was
the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was
meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were
on top up there. The country was racist all the way through. "

― , Unbought And Unbossed