Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
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I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious.
You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.
I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.
I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.
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