Ta-Nehisi Coates : (9)

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

" I guess I’d be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I’d like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" People sort of went crazy when ‘BTWAM’ came out. I’m happy a bunch of people read it. I’m happy it touched so many people. I’m less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I’m less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid’s Instagram account. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" It’s very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It’s really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it’s impossible to fully see yourself. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" We’ve got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" I think it’s really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" There’s no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" If Obama’s enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country’s first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop’s foundational generation. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates

" One of the things that’s really, really present in ‘Between the World and Me’ is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition. " - Ta-Nehisi Coates