“My mother is white. And I am black. This is how I choose to define myself and this is how America chooses to define me. I have no regrets about my racial classification other than to lament, off and on, that classifications exist period.”

“Although you might not think so, the phrase ‘white people’ is, in and of itself, a slur against white people.”

“…And that those who claim we are and exclude our history and literature from the newly emerging multicultural canon are our oppressors.”

“I suppose that’s the white thing: never having to define what you are, while other people scramble to define themselves in relationship to you.”

“How can one be a white, heterosexual male, and still retain a clear conscience?”