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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

~Henry Louis Gates

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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

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I have no plans to slow down.

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I'm a tech geek.

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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

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Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

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Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

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Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 16th, 1950

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