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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

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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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Littles Magazine Reading
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
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Smiley Water Way
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President

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