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" It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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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" For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary. "
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" With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. 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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" From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins. "
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" You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it. "
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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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" I try to write in a way that makes people feel things. "
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" We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory. "
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" American myths have never been colorless. "
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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 don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say. "
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" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "
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Me
" 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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" The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time. "
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" Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy. "
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" I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake. "
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" If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. "
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" Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it. "
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" I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about. "
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" Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country. "
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" My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK. "
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" We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear. "
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" The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people. "
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" I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential. "
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" Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration. "
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" I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated. "
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" I think human societies tend to be problematic. "
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" When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you. "
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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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