The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

-- Henry Louis Gates Jr. 小亨利·路易斯·盖茨

关于黑人历史，真相比你能编造的任何东西都要复杂得多。

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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

说唱为什么不应该是深奥的，能够接受时事、历史和批评?我想这是一种古老的遏制思想——说唱歌手，因为他们是黑人，不能也不应该渴望从贫民区之外寻求影响。

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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西，一种资产或一种负债，是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱，还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

任何名符其实的作家都是要么专注于一件事，要么专注于另一件事。

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Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

有一张黑脸总比担心黑行为好。

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