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Don't shoot fast, shoot good.
Silence is the residue of fear.
Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.
In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.
An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.
Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!
Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.
A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.
I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old.
The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.
It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.
One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.
This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.
I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic, but it's true.
The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.
Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.
When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is sparse.
Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.
I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.
My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.