"I would like to be remembered as a…" — Ta Nehisi Coates

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我希望被记住是一位有思想的作家

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“But race is the child of racism, not the father”

Ta Nehisi Coates

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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

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