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• ‟ Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.

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• ‟ People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

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• ‟ There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

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• ‟ People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

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• ‟ Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

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• ‟ I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

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• ‟ When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

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• ‟ Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

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• ‟ You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.

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• ‟ Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

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