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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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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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The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really 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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The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.
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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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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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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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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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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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I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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