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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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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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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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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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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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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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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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