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Thomas Chatterton Williams on Reading, Practical Philosophy, and Embracing Contradiction | Approach Your Troubles Like Doctor
The Daily Stoic
How Did You Come to Be This a Literary Figure?
My father was born in 19 37 in galveston, texas. He didn't have a father and was raised mostly by an aunt and uncle. They kind of discouraged him from being bookish because they thought that actually, you know, a black kid being overly bookish could get himself in trouble s in the south. And so he basically was under the age of ten. The story that we've always understood him was that he been in a neighbor's house, he came across a copy of willderan, the story of philosophy. It allowed him to realize that whatever he was being told about his worth as a second class citizen in the sagregated south and the united states
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