Top 73 Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

About Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

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

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

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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

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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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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

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There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

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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.

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

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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