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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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’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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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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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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You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.
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