{"text":"And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now—my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["african-americans","curiosity","frustration","perseverance","resilience","struggle"],"id":2267,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"}