On Race
I think you become an adult when you reach a point where you don’t need anybody underneath you. When you can look at yourself and say I’m okay the way I am. I don’t need anybody underneath me. One of the things that keeps my class of people from having any vision is race hatred. You’re so busy hating somebody else, you’re not gonna realize how beautiful you are and how much you destroy all that’s good in the world.
Peggy Terry in Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession, by Studs Terkel
