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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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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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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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All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy.
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Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible.
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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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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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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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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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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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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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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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