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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can’t have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that Picture Quote #1

One of the things that’s really, really present in ‘Between the World and Me’ is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition Picture Quote #1

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life Picture Quote #1

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like Picture Quote #1

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder Picture Quote #1

Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There’s cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There’s an incredible amount Picture Quote #1

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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people Picture Quote #1

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you’re a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you’re willing to shake their hands and be polite Picture Quote #1

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too Picture Quote #1

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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can’t have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) One of the things that’s really, really present in ‘Between the World and Me’ is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There’s cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There’s an incredible amount. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you’re a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you’re willing to shake their hands and be polite. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes) The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too. (Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes)

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