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Culture is a hard thing to break.

Malcolm X once said, “If you are black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South.”

Heroes don’t always make their names into history books.

“Who would have thunk it?

As a Black person and as a Black writer, I am exhausted.

I guess in this way becoming a fan of a sports team is sort of like falling in love.

What are we to do with a White lady who attempts to pass for a Black person?

Beau Biden was an original. He was a good man. A man of character. A man who loved deeply, and was loved in return.

I used to think, for example, that I had to be the best, simply to be enough.