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.
TA-NEHISI COATESYou can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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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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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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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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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage.
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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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