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- “Fuck what you have heard or what you have seen in your son. He may lie about homework and laugh when the teacher calls home. He may curse his teacher, propose arson for the whole public system. But inside is the same sense that was in me. None of us ever want to fail. None of us want to be unworthy, to not measure up.”
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1639 quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.', 'You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.', and 'But race is the child of racism, not the father.
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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 racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
- An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Past, America, Looks.
- Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Racism, Hatred, Broads.
- I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
- “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me.
- “But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.
- “I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me.
- “I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me.
Explanation of the famous quotes in Between the World and Me, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
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Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to spe...
The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in lifelove the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the fire-hoses that tore off their clothes and tumbled them into the streets. They seemed to love the men who raped them, the women who cursed them, love the children who spat on them, the ter...
I was admitted to Howard University but formed and shaped by The Mecca. These institutions are related but not the same. Howard University is an institution of higher education, concerned with the LSAT, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. The Mecca is a machine, crafted to capture and concentrate the dark energy of all African peoples and inject i...
Black power births a kind of understanding that illuminates all the galaxies in their truest colors. Even the Dreamerslost in their great reveriefeel it, for it is Billie they reach for in sadness, and Mobb Deep is what they holler in boldness, and Isley they hum in love, and Dre they yell in revelry, and Aretha is the last sound they hear before d...
For Coates, education is about seeing the world realistically even when that means realizing that so much of humanity is terrible and confusing. Explanation of the famous quotes in Between the World and Me, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
20 of the best book quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coates. 01. “I had thought that I must mirror the outside world, create a carbon copy of white claims to civilization. It was beginning to occur to me to question the logic of the claim itself.”. Ta-Nehisi Coates.
