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1636 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.
- 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.
Nov 27, 2017 · Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes from books like The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.
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Quotations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Journalist, Born September 30, 1975. Share with your friends. "My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission."
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.
20 of the best book quotes from Between the World and Me. 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.
