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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

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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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And they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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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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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there’s some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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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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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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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.
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