Top 73 Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

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.

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

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.

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.