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Ta-Nehisi Coates


American
September 30, 1975
Journalist
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.


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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.


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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.


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


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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.


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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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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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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.


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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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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.
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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.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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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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We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.
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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.
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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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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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