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"But here in the North I would slough off my southern ways of speech. Indeed, I would have one way of speaking in the North and another in the South. Give them what they wanted down South, that was the way. If Dr. Bledsoe could do it, so could I"(Ellison 164). This quote shows again how black people change the way they do things to please white people.

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"I am an invisible man…I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me" (Ellison 3). This quote talks about how even though the narrator is a man, people refuse to see/hear him and view him as an actual human being. This connects to "Lips" because in both, black people are not seen as having emotions and a real life. They are seen for their stereotypes and what they look like. People do not care about anything else.
Earlier in the book, the narrator was kicked out of his school and sent to the north. Bledsoe wanted to get rid of him because he was causing problems with the white men running the school. He was deprived of an opportunity for education because he was black. This connected to Du Bois' essay in the way that black people struggle to have equal opportunities as whites and are often seen as "a problem".

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Naomi begins by talking about all the amazing things lips do. Then she switches to talking about how someone called her lips "Huge. Like, Angelina Jolie huge". She gets insecure about how her black features are different from everyone else and that they pointed it out. She also say that no one cares what she has to say behind her lips but only how they look.

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The souls of black folk by W.E.B Du Bois

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The souls of black folk by W.E.B Du Bois

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In this essay, Du Bois discusses the question "How does it feel to be a problem?" He is sad to be different from other people. He says opportunities are theirs and not mine. He says black people have a double consciousness (looking at oneself through the eyes of others). He wants it to be possible to be black and an American without having doors closed in his face.

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juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet by Danez Smith

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juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet by Danez Smith

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In this poem, Smith compares a black boy to a bullet; giving human qualities to the bullet and comparing the lives of both. He says "One's whole life is a flash. Both spend their life trying to find a warmth to call home" He ends the poem with a powerful phrase "Some folks want to protect them/Some think we should just get rid of the damn things all together" referring to both guns and black people.

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Clifton was shot in the street by a police officer. "His name was Clifton, he was a black man, and they shot him"(Ellison 456).
"He was shot for a simple mistake of judgement...it was a normal mistake of which many are guilty" (Ellison 457)
Clifton's death represented the racist police force in America. He represents what happens to thousands of black Americans and how the police system is corrupt and does not think before acting.

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01–26 Location. 1800 Leonidas Street (Carrollton) Date(s). July 14, 2009 7:55 a.m. Name(s). Brian Christopher Smith (22) Notes. Face up with multiple gunshot wounds. Image shows the view of a crime victim. The man was shot by a police officer

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In the video, Gambino shoots a man in the head. He says "police be trippin' now...Guns in my area" referring to racist cops in the police force in the US.

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Being Black in America is Exhausting by Jonathan Capehart

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Being Black in America is Exhausting by Jonathan Capehart

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In this article, Jonathan talks about all the things he and many other black people need to do in order to not be seen as threats. Growing up, he was taught not to run, not to pull things out of your pockets, not to walk behind people, even making his phone case a vibrant color so people don't think it's a gun. He says how he's tired of it, but he still does it due to racial stereotypes of black people.

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"I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction". The narrator's grandfather told him this. He thought they should have two identities (one that follows social stereotypes and one that does not). This connects to the two sources above because both of them have to do with complying with racial stereotypes and agreeing to do things just to make white people happy and say what they want to hear/do what they want you to do

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A white man on an airplane takes the seats of a black mother and child in first class. He doesn't expect them to be in first class. The mother says nothing but "I'll sit in the middle".