The African Americans' story is one that seems to ... -David Levering Lewis

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

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David Levering Lewis is a respected historian known for his research and writings on specific historical eras, figures, or movements. His works might have earned him accolades and awards.

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There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people ...
Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th...
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Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an o...
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure....
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life ...
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments wh...
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the wo...
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think....
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way...
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and somethi...
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure....
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keep...