Quote of the Day: Bayard Rustin on Racial Identity

You can read this quote by Bayard Rustin, from a 1960 radio show with Malcolm X, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Suggested Reading ‘Mean Ushers, Peppermints’ and 15 other Blackity-black Church Rules You Need to Know Ex-Cal State University Basketball Coach Accused of Pimping and More 13 Reasons Why 2026…

You can read this quote by Bayard Rustin, from a 1960 radio show with Malcolm X, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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