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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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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's…
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His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.
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A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
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If you can rhythmically slow down your breath to four breaths a minute, you can indirectly control your mind and slow it…
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No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad…
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[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole;…
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Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,…
— James Madison
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I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me…
— Chris Colfer
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I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.
— Krysten Ritter
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My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
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