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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.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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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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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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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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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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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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In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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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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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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