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I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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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.
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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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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 progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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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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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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Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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