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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

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I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

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It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

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If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.

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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.

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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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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.

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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

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When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.

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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

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As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

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