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Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

American - Journalist | September 30, 1975 -

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

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Violence Situation Born Lived West

Racism is a physical experience.

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Experience Racism Physical

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.

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People Forward Black You Look Born

I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

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Walk Me Writing Think Say Want

If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.

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End America White Know Existence

Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.

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People Black Same Return Theft

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

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Today Understand Way Housing Without

The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.

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Community House White Genuine Obama

The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

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Fear Power Strong Enough White Up

In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

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Art Me Loved Literature You Out

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.

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Black And White Progress Foundation

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.

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Road Black America You Terrorism

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