Marc Lamont Hill

Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery.…

— Marc Lamont Hill

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

— Marc Lamont Hill

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now…

— Marc Lamont Hill

Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change…

— Marc Lamont Hill

I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out…

— Marc Lamont Hill

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these…

— Marc Lamont Hill

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

— Marc Lamont Hill

Nothing lasts forever, whether it's Greece, Rome or the British Empire. It doesn't mean that America has to end. The country could…

— Marc Lamont Hill

The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a…

— Marc Lamont Hill

The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The…

— Marc Lamont Hill

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're…

— Marc Lamont Hill

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

— Marc Lamont Hill

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

— Marc Lamont Hill

If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help…

— Marc Lamont Hill

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something…

— Marc Lamont Hill

We have to convince the white worker that they have something to gain by forming a solidarity politics with black workers because…

— Marc Lamont Hill

When we look at the Trump candidacy or we look at any Republican candidacy for the presidency that's been successful, they tend…

— Marc Lamont Hill

If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply…

— Marc Lamont Hill