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Ta-Nehisi Coates

American Journalist

Born: Sep 30, 1975

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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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