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Ta-Nehisi Coates has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
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I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it…
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours…
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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…
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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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…
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to…
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing…
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist…
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.…
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when…
— H. L. Mencken
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance…
— Margaret Sanger
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable…
— John Berger
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist…
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack…
— H. L. Mencken
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You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
— Michael Crichton
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
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Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the…
— Oliver Sacks
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Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.
— Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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