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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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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The…
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Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are…
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Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your…
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The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
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If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights…
— James Hilton
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Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on…
— Unknown Author
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into…
— Leon Trotsky
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Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have…
— Lahiri Mahasaya
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then…
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