"What I am telling you is that you……" — Ta-Nehisi Coates
"What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through--that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it."
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14 Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
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I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one…
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go…
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present…
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an…
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of…
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a…
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a…
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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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