I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
From Ta-Nehisi Coates
My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.
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