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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I didn't always have things,but I had people - I always
had people. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Enslaved" is what the plunderer does to a righteous woman but "a slave" is a righteous woman who has accepted the plunderer's law.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping.
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That he was outnumbered did not matter because the whole world had outnumbered him long ago, and what do numbers matter?
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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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Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life.
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My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.
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I am convinced that the Dreamers, at least the Dreamers of today, would rather live white than live free. In
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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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 robbery of time is not measured in lifespans but in moments.
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The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog.
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This is the practiced habit of jabbing out one's eyes and forgetting the work of one's hands. To
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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Don't give up your life, preserve your life," he would say. "And if you got to give it up, make it even-steven.
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The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.
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One racist act. It's all it takes.
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We'd summoned you out of ourselves, and you were not given a vote. If only for that reason, you deserved all the protection we could muster.
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sometimes fail to walk the air
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And hell upon those who tell us to be twice as good and shoot us no matter.
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Had any people, anywhere, ever been as sprawling and beautiful as us?
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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...should the Dreamers reap what they had sown, we would reap it right with them.
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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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Race is the child of racism, not the father.
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To yell "black-on-black crime" is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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Whenever a woman smiled his way, she'd already begun dividing her life into trimesters.
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This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
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Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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I don't so much hope that any reader "agrees" with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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You have the right to every end of your exploration and no motherfucker anywhere can tell you otherwise ...
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There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I'd never had.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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What I wanted was to put as much distance between you and that blinding fear as possible.
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Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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What I want you to know is that this is not your fault, even if it is ultimately your responsibility.
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You deserved so much more, little flower. You deserved a Wakanda that cherished you.
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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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Sell cigarettes without the proper authority and your body can be destroyed.
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Love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes.
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Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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And you are here now, and you must live - and there is so much out there to live for, not just in someone else's country, but in your own home.
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I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body.
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The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream.
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There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.
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There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
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I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery,
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I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.
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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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America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men.
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He was born-again, a state I did not share but respected.
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Racism is a physical experience.
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You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
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traveling as a pointless luxury, like blowing the rent check on a pink suit.
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You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
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My impulses were not filled with unfailing virtue.
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If he hated, he hated because it was human for the enslaved to hate the enslaver, natural as Prometheus hating the birds.
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I could haveyou arrested!" Which is to
say: "I could take your
body. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin.
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This need to be always on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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But I was grounded and domesticated by the plain fact that should I now go down, I would not go down alone.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?
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In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
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They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present
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but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance.
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But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know.
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The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free.
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When the journalist asked me about my body, it was like she was asking me to awaken her from the most gorgeous dream.
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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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Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading.
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