- Chadwick Boseman: Press on with pride - and press on with purpose.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Black power originates in a view of the American galaxy taken from a dark and essential planet. Black power is the dungeon-side view of Monticello; which is to say, the view taken in struggle.
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- Ta-Nehisi Coates: The warmth of our particular world is beautiful, no matter how brief and breakable. We have made something down here. *They* made us into a race. *We* made ourselves into a people.
- Mahershala Ali: She was the kind of black girl who'd been told as a child that she better be smart because her looks wouldn't save her. Told as a young woman that she was really pretty for a dark-skinned girl. There was all about her a knowledge of cosmic injustices. The same knowledge I glimpsed all those years ago watching the golden haired boys with their toy trucks and football cards and dimly perceiving the great barrier between the world and me.