"Black is beautiful and ugly, intelligent and unintelligent, law-abiding and law-breaking, industrious and lazy—and it is those imperfections that make Black people human, make Black people equal to all other imperfectly human groups."

This was definitely a denser read, both in the length of the book as well as its content. But this was most certainly a necessary read. I'm going to ruminate and reflect and review my (extensive) notes as I let this one sink in, but I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to learn about the development, implementation, and evolution of racist ideas in America, and what we can do both as individuals and as a greater society to combat them. Because it's not enough to be nonracist. We must be antiracist.