To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — 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
![“[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 symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an…” quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5dc/ta-nehisi-coates-733_achievement_winning-the-white-house-was-an-achieveme_47651.jpg)
![“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.” quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/feb/ta-nehisi-coates-733_ability_grew-up-in-hawaii-that-gave-barack-obama_75931.jpg)