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Jun 14, 2024 · ~Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, Chapter 2, Page 107 “I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
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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...
- “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.
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“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, quote from Between the World and Me. Copy text. “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
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