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• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
• America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the…
• The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
• Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
• Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
• The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all…
• There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack…
• I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but…
• If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
• My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their…
• An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
• The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking…

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