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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it. - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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