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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
Born: Sep 30, 1975
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I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.' Ta-Nehisi Coates
Seen Insecure Atlanta Liked
Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Answer Question Any Storytellers Choose Right
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. Ta-Nehisi Coates
History You White Attempting Study Supremacy Force Understand Misunderstand America American American History Fundamentally
The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history. Ta-Nehisi Coates
History Organization Country Klan Most Terrorist Domestic
I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Family Book Up Going Break Break Up
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Art People Think Uncomfortable Attempt Journalism Terms Make Always Discomfort Standards
I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Soul Yourself Hate Eats Purge Understand How
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Culture Books Vocabulary Through Mostly Comic Comic Books Hip-Hop Dungeons Acquired Much Pop Pop Culture Dragons
I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never Read Mockingbird
When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Book Space Mind Panel Everything See True Between Read Comic Comic Book Where Literally Happening Movies Your
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
Terrorism You Black Jim Everything Jim Crow Enslavement Plunder Crow Fact Road Along Without Came Bump Itself America In Fact After Communities
For me, my writing benefits from my experience. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Me Experience Writing Benefits
The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Time Our Way Our Time Latter Writer Come Most Greatest Proud Nonfiction American Being Fiction Fiction Writer Former Her Two
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You People Black Country Nothing Back Saw Way Ancestors Enslaved Born Look Looked Another Were Been Years Your Descendant Forward Slaves
I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated. Ta-Nehisi Coates
War Saying Generation People Gave Liberated Those Folks Somehow Also Least Understood Were Very Contradiction America Revolutionary American Revolutionary War African African Americans Land Many Fought Slavery
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You People Black Group Every TV See Some Seems Point Week Abuse Like Sort Understand How Up Curious American Ended Being Where Turn Turn-On Really Your Who
You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Racism Party Before Situation Politicians President Ran President Trump Charges Outright Had No-One Came Were Opposition Years Trump Up Eight Where Mean Themselves Platform Based Basically Thinly
It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mind Obama Fact Said His Quickness Speaks Agility
There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it. Ta-Nehisi Coates
People Political Black Long White Pleading Folks Emerges Long Tradition Tradition Very Get Just Interested Necessity
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Intimidate Respond Must Threaten Attempting Force Anybody Body Your Your Body Tolerate
I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genius Before Ancestors Evolved Would Fact Highly Checked Were Chickens Eggs Suspect In Fact Which Mean
I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true. Ta-Nehisi Coates
You Soul People Mind Some People Think Physical Some Outside Self Part True Feel Ultimate Just Anything Body Your Who Thing
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
Me World Ways One Of The Things Some Outside Between Am Tradition African-American In-Between Really Things Present
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Time Mistake Pressure Long Think Riots Long Periods Periods Happen Communities
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