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  • born 1975
  • 212 quotes

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer (born 1975), is quoted 212 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Reparations, Racism, Thinking and Chaos.

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Racism is a physical experience.

Donald Trump did not appear by magic.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

I think human societies tend to be problematic.

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'

Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

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

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

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

In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

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

The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.

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

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

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

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

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

Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.

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

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

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

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

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