Ta Nehisi Coates: "The classroom was a jail of other…"

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El aula era una cárcel de los intereses de los demás. La biblioteca estaba abierta, sin fin, libre.

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“It's no small thing to take the risk of writing for a living.”

Ta Nehisi Coates

“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains”

“[...] We have made the world a lie.”

“Our challenge is to recognize that there is no 'them.'”

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