As James Baldwin says, You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world considers a nigger - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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As James Baldwin says, You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world considers a nigger
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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