01c. 1975 ADOutside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
02c. 1975 ADMy belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
03c. 1975 ADYou may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
04c. 1975 ADThe essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
05c. 1975 ADI 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.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
06c. 1975 ADMy father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
07c. 1975 ADThere isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.Ta-Nehisi Coates / quote ↗
