"Some symptoms, some memories that may occur in Black American DNA: never knowing your real name; always fearing death; being expected to prove to your government that you simply "matter"; never seeing yourself on television; if you do see yourself on television, you are dead or dying or a joke; fearing that, in the event of your death, your life will be analyzed with the most precise scrutiny; being presumed guilty; receiving less for more. And then, there is unrecognized trauma, what's nestled under the surface of our psyches. Little contagions untreated."
~Morgan Parker, You Get What You Pay For