Ioy Quotes

In America, black is beautiful. To be black is to be more righteous, nobler; carry the heaviest historic baggage - heavier than the Holocaust - and be encouraged to perpetually and publicly pick at those suppurating sores. To be black is to have an unwritten, implicit social contract with wider, whiter society. To be black it to be born with an IOY (I Own You); it is to be owed apologies, obsequiousness, education, and auto-exculpation for any wrongdoing. (Ilana Mercer)