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I thought everyone went to school and were the only ones using the brown crayons to color in their family portraits, while everyone else was using the peach-colored ones.
How come I'm learning to play the violin while my neighborhood friends don't even have a music class?
You see, as I got older, while I was grateful for this amazing opportunity that I was being given, there was this ever-present pang of: But what about everyone else?
While African-Americans were enslaved and prohibited from schooling, their labor established the very institution from which they were excluded.
But while we all know things were indeed separate, they were in no ways equal.
School funding should not be decided by property taxes or some funky economic equation where rich kids continue to benefit from state aid, while poor kids are continuously having food and resources taken from their mouths.
They're there for a while.
Because while our warriors spend countless hours training for war, we've only recently come to understand that many require training on how to return to civilian life.
CA: And we were indeed expanding the sense of tribe for a while.
We have been using robots to study distant worlds in our solar system for a while now.
Now, that's a pretty bold statement, but if you take nothing else away from this talk, I actually want you to remember that while blockchain technology is relatively new, it's also a continuation of a very human story, and the story is this.
General relativity describes the behavior of very large things, while quantum physics explains the very small.
And many were mothers while they were still children themselves.
They've been killed shopping while black, driving while black, having a mental disability while black, having a domestic disturbance while black.
They've even been killed being homeless while black.
Let's pretend that our government supported an oil-based economy, while discouraging more sustainable forms of energy, knowing all the while that the result would be pollution, war and rising costs.
But while you're at it, then you can take the work of Craig Venter and Ham Smith.
He tried to take over a 350-foot ship while big navy officers with big guns were on the ship.
While we were writing this, we got into a massive fight.
It is really hard to face the injustice that exists in the world, while still believing in the ability of people to really change.
While we may not swap faces in our own lives, we can evolve too.
And while we often take for granted the services that satellites provide us, the satellites themselves deserve our attention as they are leaving a lasting mark on the space they occupy.
And all the while, underneath surface time is this whole other dimension where the past and the present and the future merge and become deep time.
And while the theologies and the practices vary very much between these independent communities, what we can see are some common, consistent threads between them.
I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black.
It's the price that I and so many others pay for learning while black.
An analysis of data from the National Center for Education Statistics found that 45 percent of our nation's pre-K to high school students were people of color, while only 17 percent of our teachers are.
So while I could not control the instability of their homes, the uncertainty of their next meal, or the loud neighbors that kept them from sleep, I provided them with a loving classroom that made them feel proud of who they are, that made them know that they mattered.
There were still laws for every way we used our privates while they pawed at the soft folds of us, grabbed with no concern for consent, no laws made for the men that enforced them.
Saudi Arabia has raised living standards while frustrating many other human strivings.
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