Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Explore a curated collection of 45 quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The election of Donald Trump confirmed everything I knew of my country and none of what I could accept. The idea that Am — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There are no clean victories for black people, nor, perhaps, for any people. The presidency of Barack Obama is no differ — Ta-Nehisi Coates
One Saturday morning last May, I joined the presidential motorcade as it slipped out of the southern gate of the White H — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Think of all the love poured into him. Think of the tuitions for Montessori and music lessons. Think of the gasoline exp — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my fathe — Ta-Nehisi Coates
On the last day of her visit I drove your grandmother to the airport. Your mother was her only child, as you are my only — Ta-Nehisi Coates
You and I, my son, are that "below." That was true in 1776. It is true today. There is no them without you, and without — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I had thought that I must mirror the outside world, create a carbon copy of white claims to civilization. It was beginni — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward ot — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
From the day we touched these stolen shores, he'd explain to anyone who'd listen, they infected our minds. They deployed — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it so — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I do not believe we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves. And still I urge you to struggl — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for anothe — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than h — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things act — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black — Ta-Nehisi Coates