“People of color know that not all of the safety and spoils of whiteness are available to us. Yet we can speak in the voice of whitness if we so choose. Some of us know no other voice. It was born in us. It is the voice colonization left us. Some of us adopt it later – in childhood or early adulthood – and lose our other voices. Some of us never allow whiteness into our throats. Some of us code-switch. I am a code-switcher.”
