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“All my life I'd heard people tell their black boys and black girls to "be twice as good", which is to say "accept half as much". [...] This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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All my life I'd heard people tell their black boys and black girls to "be twice as good", which is to say "accept half as much". [...] This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates