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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I’m not going to break up my family, not for a book (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who’ve been dead for 100 years. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell’s biography - there’s an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That’s not how it happened. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons and Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
White America’ is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn’t actually come from the criminal justice system. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like ‘The Wonder Years,’ or I would watch, you know, some other show like ‘Family Ties.’ (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
There’s a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn’t have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X’s speech ‘Message to the Grass Roots.’ (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio - but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn’t raised within the Christian church; I wasn’t raised within any church. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It’s literature for me; it’s art. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn’t really have that present in my house. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)
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