"The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men,……" — Ta-Nehisi Coates
"The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain."
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14 Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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…
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a…
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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…
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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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