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  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.
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  2. Bebe Moore Campbell _ Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

    That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then, well, there's just no telling what they'd do to us.""Who?" Lily asked."Why, honey, the niggers and our husbands both. I don't care what color they are; men build up steam. And they gotta let it out somewhere. Colored men. White men. They both crazy. Honey, the point is you gotta look at it this way: A whole lotta women can't, "I got a man who'll kill for me."
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  3. Toni Morrison _ God Help the Child

    I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.
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  4. Roxane Gay _ Bad Feminist

    To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed to remind black people of their place, a word to reinforce a perception of inferiority. I have no interest in using the word to describe myself or any person of color, under any circumstance. There is no reclamation to be had.
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  5. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be?"
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