Box Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

“I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.”

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Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames.

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I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

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The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.

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I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

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If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

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Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of…

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I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led…

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The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest, and the…

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White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do…

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Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

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I had the benefit, I'll say it, of coming up behind my brother and seeing what he went through and just simply trying do…

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It is mind-blowing to pause and think that a film as forward-facing and potent as 'Do the Right Thing' was released the same year…

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I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

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I love finding out why people don't love things. And if you ask people why they don't like things, particularly when they get into this sort of culture box, you find out that they're not liking things because of what people are going to think about them, and not because of what the things actually sound like.

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