Lena Williams Quotes:

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

Topics: Hero, Ideas, People

We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.

source: - Lena Williams (2000). “It's the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that Get Under the Skin of Blacks and Whites”, Houghton Mifflin

Topics: Cutting

Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.

source: - Lena Williams (2002). “It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Topics: White, Racism, Black