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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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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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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.
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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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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It’s the weight on our shoulders. That is what’s actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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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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Racism is, among other things.
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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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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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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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