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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020