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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/ta-nehisi-coates-obama-transcript-iii/511475/

Obama: It’s interesting watching Malia and Sasha, who have obviously lived in as strange and unreal an environment as any kids do. They feel very strongly about their African American roots. They don’t feel that they have to choose. And that, I think, is a great gift to bequeath them, where they know they’ve got a home, they know they’ve got a base, they know who they are. But they don’t think that in any way constrains them. And certainly they are not burdened by the sorts of doubts that previous generations—and even our generation—might have felt in what it means to be black. They think being black and being free are not contradictory. It’s interesting, when we went to visit the museum, Smithsonian [National Museum of African American History and Culture], just watching them soak it in. And they’re well-informed young people, so they knew most of the history, and I forget which one of them just said, “I can’t wait to bring my friends here.” And I think she was not just referring to African American friends but her white friends. She said, “Because face it, our stuff’s cool.” We’ve got Michael Jordan, Beyoncé, Dr. King. What you got?

So there’s a confidence that they project, which doesn’t mean they’re not mindful that there’re still struggles. You hear them talking about what black women have to go through with hair and they’ll go on a long rant—just the inconvenience and expense that they still feel is forced upon them, not just by the white community but the black community. They’ll still notice a certain obliviousness of even their best friends on certain issues. But they don’t feel trapped by that. They don’t feel as if that’s determinative of their possibilities. And I think they would say that the upsides really outweigh the downsides. They really like who we are. They like the community.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/ta-nehisi-coates-obama-transcript/510965/

But I also, I think, by that point would have benefited from enough circumstances in which assuming the best in people had paid off—where there had been a teacher who had really been helpful and looked out for me even when I didn’t completely deserve it. Or, you know, just witnessing the example of a Dr. King, or an Arthur Ashe. And so I’m coming of age at a time where you’ve got the strength and defiance of a Malcolm or an Ali, and you’ve also got the soulfulness and the moral strength of a King. And those things are speaking to each other. They’re in a conversation. And you’re saying to yourself, I can draw from both of those traditions. And there may be times where it is right to be angry and defiant. And there may be times where you’ve got to give the country and white people the benefit of the doubt. And if you’re so eager to give them the benefit of the doubt that they slap you down and you don’t know it, that’s a problem. But if you’re so invested in the anger that you don’t seen when somebody is putting out their hand in a sincere gesture of friendship, then you’ve now become your own jailer. It’s not just someone else jailing you.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/

Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed to be a Harvard-trained lawyer with a decade of political experience and an incredible gift for speaking to cross sections of the country; Donald Trump needed only money and white bluster.

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CHAZELLE But you must have had to bury yourself for a while just to create Hamilton. Did you feel like the outside world was going, "What the hell are you doing?" MIRANDA Everyone goes through this, whether you're even in the arts or not. What are the things you do to support your family and keep going while you're doubling down on the passion project? I was on a TV show [Do No Harm] that made the record of the lowest-rated debut in the history of NBC. RAE Oh yeah. MIRANDA But I took that job because they told me they were going to kill me off at the end of the first season, and it shot in Philly, not L.A., so I could stay home. I was No. 5 on the call sheet. It was a lot of great theater actors, like Phylicia Rashad and Steve Pasquale and Mike Esper. CHAZELLE I've got to watch this now. MIRANDA It was notorious because it had one of the worst advertising [campaigns], it was like a Jekyll-and-Hyde doctor plot. And it was a guy who had his hands and there was a face on his hands. GLOVER Oh yeah. I remember those posters. MIRANDA Paul F. Tompkins used to call him Dr. Facehands because the sign was up all over L.A. But to me, that was my Hamilton residency. I was making a living, I was only working two days a week, and I was going to historical Philly where I would go do research on Hamilton. I wrote "Satisfied" in my trailer. So everyone, you balance those things out.

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Time. Time is the most luxurious of all things. If you have ever experienced sickness, if you have ever experienced someone close passing too soon, if you have children growing older and less interested in you with each day. Time. For the young and busy, do their laundry. Run an errand or two that could provide them 2 or 3 precious weekend hours. Don't try to schedule it with them, just provide it when they aren't expecting it. They will not have had a chance to schedule it either, making it truly free time in every sense of the word. For those with kids...babysit. Or more importantly, toddler sit. Take the kids away. Give them the guilt-free quiet of their own space. It has everything they need; food, and comfort. And each other. For those who raised you...give them time with you. Thoughtful, focused, time. Tell them what you remember. Let them fill you in on what you have forgotten. Ask them questions. Go back in time. Let them know who you are now, today. Describe for them who you hope to be after they are gone. It takes effort, which is an indication of how worthwhile it is. But it's free. It's a wonderful gift, and trust me, it's something many of us will eventually be willing to trade everything we have for just a little more of it with those we care about. Failing that, I love me some hand-made socks. posted by nickjadlowe at 2:19 PM on November 10, 2009

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"It's funny, I started out trying to make a film about grief," he says, when the phrase comes up. "About telling a story involving sorrow and regret. And as it went on, it occurred to me that it's a lot more about love than I'd realized. I think I'm always just interested in stories about people who love each other. I find it very touching how much people care about each other, even when people don’t get along or something terrible happens between them. People don't always care about their parents, their children, their brothers or sisters — but when they do, it's pretty powerful. It's almost not worth being alive if you don't have that connection."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/urban-blight-3 A kind of bewildered atmosphere rises up around Kenneth Lonergan’s characters as they talk. Despite their verbosity, powers of observation, and critical acumen, Lonergan’s mostly Manhattan-based creations—they don’t journey far—are at the mercy of their own innocence: they yammer on about their insights but fall short of perception. Often they take life for granted until it happens to them; when it does, their illusions devolve into soul-crushing disillusion.

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My momma always said that until people asked the right question, they weren’t ready for the right answer. If you ask me a broad, unspecific, basic-ass question, then you aren’t ready for a serious answer from a serious person.

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