“The originating sin of America is slavery, for which reparations should be paid and will never be paid; as a result, mini-reparations are paid daily, and the NBA remains, for me, reparations...”
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“The originating sin of America is slavery, for which reparations should be paid and will never be paid; as a result, mini-reparations are paid daily, and the NBA remains, for me, reparations...”
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“Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.”
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“I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.”
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“Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.”
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“Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swi...”
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“The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only...”
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“The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some strange way to be printing a kind of quasi-neutral truth or even, in some people's minds, slightly ce...”
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