I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. “The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”ġ1. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.”ġ0. “The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history.
The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking, and honest writing.”ĩ. “The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers. “And I saw that what divided me from the world was not anything intrinsic to us but the actual injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named us matters more than anything we could ever actually do.”Ĩ.
None of us want to be unworthy, to not measure up.”ħ.
But inside is the same sense that was in me. He may curse his teacher, propose arson for the whole public system. He may lie about homework and laugh when the teacher calls home. “Fuck what you have heard or what you have seen in your son. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and An Unlikely Road to Manhood (2008)ġ.”What I came to understand was that the great democracy in this, and that what mattered to these boys was not so much what you came to the street with but how you carried what you were given.”Ģ. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the foremost voices on racial injustice in America and is constantly blowing readers away with his observations, and while he isn’t known for his optimism (his thoughtful examinations of America won’t end up plastered on uplifting tote bags), there’s no shortage of Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes to make you consider and reconsider America’s past, present and future.
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