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Where does a black soul go to rest?
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Black
Doe
Soul
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People need their history like they need air and food.
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Air
Needs
People
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Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.
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Bother
World
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I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
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Passion
Thinking
Writing
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For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.
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America
Boards
White
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Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.
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Conservative
Management
Religious
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I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.
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Institutions
People
Thinking
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I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.
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Blind
Racist
Self
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I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.
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Christ
Thinking
Want
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Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
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America
People
Tired
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Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.
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Country
Culture
Thinking
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We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.
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Insult
Response
Suffering
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I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.
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Offending
People
Trouble
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Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.
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Democracy
Next
Outcomes
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I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.
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Chance
Class
Economic
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I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.
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President
Talent
Thinking
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We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.
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America
Believe
Country
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The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.
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Country
Prison Population
Two
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I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.
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Community
Oil
Thinking
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I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.
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Black
Regimes
White
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I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.
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America
Leaving
Powerful
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Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.
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African American
Salary
Unemployment
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Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.
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Democracy
People
Want
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I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly.
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Country
Cutting
Powerful
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One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery.
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Community
Eight
People
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Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.
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Men
Passion
Powerful
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The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.
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Men
America
Justice
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I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.
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Careers
People
Real
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You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.
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America
Country
Self
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You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.
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Tree
Twenties
Water
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I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.
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Men
School
Years
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Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.
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Father
Mother
Strong
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Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness
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Communication
Community
Needs
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I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.
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Space
Class
Thinking
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Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.
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Country
People
Thug
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The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.
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Men
Justice
People
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Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.
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Country
People
Tired
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Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The business class is combined with the evangelicals. And I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. So they are very happy about what we're doing to Iraq - and the menace we present now for Syria and for Iran - because they think that the apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that they can see vindicated their most literal interpretation of the Bible.
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Country
Important
Thinking
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