Best quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates on America

Checkout quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates on America

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

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• ‟ The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

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• ‟ I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

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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.

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• ‟ From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.

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• ‟ If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.

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• ‟ With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

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• ‟ We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

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• ‟ Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

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

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