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I’m not going to break up my family, not for a book.

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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they’ve done it: what worked, what didn’t work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

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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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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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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That’s not a mistake.

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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn’t really have that present in my house.

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One of the things that’s really, really present in ‘Between the World and Me’ is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country – and I would say this goes right up to the White House – who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

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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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