"I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past."

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Source : "Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 21, 2014.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #White Quotes

“No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather.”
“I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.”
“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”
“Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.”
“In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.”
“My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.”
“They need a role model. They need a star!”
“I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.”

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