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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Hey People Thinking
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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Country People Rights
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root

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