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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. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mind
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" I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true. "
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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 wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist. "
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" Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols. "
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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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" If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception. "
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" White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers. "
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" If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works. "
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" People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account. "
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" If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow. "
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" We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities. "
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" When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what. "
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" You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming. "
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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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" 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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" The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total. "
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" I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see. "
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" Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. "
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" There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it. "
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" In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art. "
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" To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. "
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" My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition. "
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" Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had. "
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" The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries. "
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" I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation. "
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" Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human. "
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" Donald Trump did not appear by magic. "
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" When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything. "
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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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" Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism. "
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