Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

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These are some quotes by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates Journalist, who was born on September 30, 1975.

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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

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