"It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this."

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American writer and journalist known for essays on race, history, and politics. His books include Between the World and Me and The Message.

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