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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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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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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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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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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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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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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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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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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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