Daily Inspiration Quote by Trisha Goddard

The line lands like a confession and an indictment in the same breath: not of Blackness, but of the machinery that manufactures “common sense.” Trisha Goddard isn’t reaching for polish here. She’s naming an ugly, almost cartoonish stereotype in its raw form, letting its bluntness do the work. “Apart from me” is the surgical cut: she separates herself from “black people” as a category, revealing how racism trains even those who are targeted by it to imagine themselves as the exception.

The intent reads as exposure rather than provocation. Goddard, a media figure who has spent decades translating private pain into public conversation, understands the power of saying the quiet part out loud. By choosing images like “threw stones” and “lived in huts,” she points to the colonial stock footage of the Western imagination: primitivism as shorthand, Africa as a prop, Black life as pre-modern spectacle. The phrasing is deliberately unsophisticated because the belief itself is unsophisticated; it’s prejudice dressed up as inherited lore.

Subtext: this is what assimilation can cost. When the dominant culture offers a ladder, it often demands distance from your own group as the entry fee. Goddard’s admission also anticipates the audience’s discomfort and denies them the easy out of denial. If someone like her can internalize this fantasy, the quote implies, then the problem isn’t a few bad individuals. It’s a cultural pipeline - schools, television, tabloids, casual jokes - that teaches people what to picture when they hear “Black,” and rewards them for not questioning it.