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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.

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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn’t directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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