Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

American - Journalist | September 30, 1975 -

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

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Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.

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