Five Best Ideas of the Day
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“I think it’s important for us to be grappling with what actually keeps communities safe in this moment. And when it comes to Black communities in particular, is safety only achieved through punishment?”
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“To me, I am happiest…when I have the first draft done. Because then, all the angst is gone…Now the trick is to make it a really good book.”
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“When you can see your life within this cosmological timeline, to me, it gives you a radically different perspective…”
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“I don’t have the luxury of giving up, because the slaves that birthed me, they didn’t have the chance to give up.”
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Anthony Fauci on candidates for a COVID-19 vaccine: “I’m cautiously optimistic.”