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Jill Nelson

“Not that there's anything inherently horrible about making a mistake, but when you're a Negro in America it's usually not just you who's making the mistake. It's y'all, the race, black folks in toto.”
- Jill Nelson,
- Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
- (1993)

Jill Nelson, U.S. journalist, writer

(1952)