The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, war commenced not in 1861, but in 1661, when the Virginia Colony began passing America's first black codes, the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Perhaps after a serious discussion and debate - the kind that HR 40 proposes - we may find that the country can… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is a kind… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I drove away, as always, thinking of you. I do not believe that we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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