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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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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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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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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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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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